Suboxone Help? Insurance? (Page 2)

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Hi my name is Carrie and I'm from Hermosa Beach, CA.. I have been taking oral 8mg suboxone for months, as it really helps me and keeps me from popping 40 vicodin or norco's a day. I was on cobra with Blue cross when I began taking it, but it was too expensive. The cobra was 600 a month. Do you know of any independent rx coverage for suboxone? Right now i just paid 400 for 90 of them, and that's a one month supply. I'm better off taking the vicodins. I am disabled, but haven't gotten approved for medical yet. I have no insurance. If you have any suggestions, please help me, best regards.

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I am looking into some kind of assistance for my Suboxone tablets. My husband lost his job last week and our medical cov has ended.

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Hi I know this post is old but I was wondering if you were still using this card? The only patient assistance program I have found will only allow three patients per doctor to get it. So i wanted to know if this was still available.

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Hi I just recently started suboxene but hav no iinsurance and pay out of pocket I cant afford this much longer,any ideas? Jamie
My email is {edited for privacy}

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i would try to find another doctor he should have faxed in paper work to your insurence the very first day at least mine did. that is the only way to get it pre auth. you need to tell your dr to do that right away call him tomorrow no reason he shouldnt do it that is bs.

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Exactly, what is the difference? OH I know, Doctors will stop prescribing once they've got you hooked! Dealers never say No.

Your advice was the best on this forum, best b/c it is real.

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@carrie,contact Here To Help,They will pay for your meds.your dr has to recommend you.they will cover it im not sure how long they will pay.its worth a try .. I Have been on suboxone for 5 years.my insurance covers my meds but I pay my Dr $200.00 A MONTH WHICH IS VERY CHEAP COMPAIRED TO MOST AROUND HERE..

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she said she doesn't have any insurance..

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Your doctors should be encouraging you to decrease the dose a little at a time. Always break your 8mg pills in half. Three years ago I started from 15 10mg hydrocodone tabs a day to 1/2 tab 8mg Suboxone in the morning and another 1/2 at night. I kept breaking the 8mg Subutex in smaller pieces till it was hard to tell how much I was taking twice a day. About 1 year in the good doc changed my script to the 2mg tabs. At some point, I forgot to take it in the morning and now I am down to about a 1/4 2mg tab in the late afternoon and another 1/4 tab at bedtime. I have also had 5 mg Valium that really helped a lot at first, but now just a couple times a week. I am going to try to go to the 1/4 tab at bedtime pretty soon and see what happens. Doing some evening exercise made a huge difference. I was and still feel owned by this thing, opium. We all must try to beat it and it should not be making all of our decisions for us. If your doc is not helping you decrease your dose, you should change docs. I believe that all insurance /Medicare or Medicaid payors and the FDA look to see the decrease in the amount being prescribed to you over time, since that is why it was made available as an alternative to Methadone in the first place. If that decrease does not happen, the payors and regulators start to ask questions to the doctor to give a 'medical reason' why this drug is not working as it was intended. If a doctor gets too much attention or has to many patients that aren't getting 'better', they risk loosing the authorization to prescribe this drug. If you're part of the reason that puts a doc and their medical practice under the proverbial regulatory microscope..... well, you can probably finish the rest of this Grimm fairy tale on your own. This is my story and I'm sticking' to it, until I find out something different.

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carrie,if you can afford 40 vicodin,$400.00 should not be a problem for you to come up with..just saying!!

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hi just started taking suboxone and find that i prefer the film to the pill but on my current insurance i can only get the pill. i was wondering if you know whether you get the pill or film on healthnet under commonwealth care (im switching to that)?

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I have been on Suboxone for about 3 months now. I'm on 8mg and taking 3/4 film daily my doctor cuts me down monthly i'm only getting 13 now! They cost so much!! But i do not have to pay for my doctor visits or nothing due to i don't have a job so i'm approve for this one program that he offers so thank god on that part. I'm trying to find a other doctor that will write me a month supply so i don't have to go every week! Plus 13 films isn't a lot when i first started i only got 14 for 4 weeks then i got cut down. My doctor is really cool and nice he actually wants you off of it but like i said i hate going every week and going to group i would rather get a month supply of 90 or something :) :) :)

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jen092085 ,YOU HAVE TO FIND A DR FIRST..I DONT REALLY KNOW WHAY YOU ARE REFERING TOO. THE DR THAT GIVES THE MEDS OR THE ONE WHO HELPS PAY FOR THE MEDS..

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I pay for my Drs visit out of pocket. But have found coupons on the Internet. I get 60-8mgs a month for like $205. They are the generic tablets but work just as well

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THEY WILL ONLY WANT TOO PAY FOR THE PILL INSTEAD OF THE FILM BECAUSE IT IS A GENERIC,,THE FILM IS BRAND..

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Let me say this...

If you have the ability to stay on Suboxone, do it. I was eating 20-30 Vicodin a day for 6 yrs, I had seizures coming down w/o med's. I ended up on Suboxone but I moved from NY to Fl and I could no longer afford Suboxone...

I did go back out annd got hooked on herion ( it is cheaper) ?thankfully? I ended up on Methadone...YUCK...This drug is so bad, it's better than hurting H or Suboxone on the street....I can but Suboxone on the street cheaper than Dr's office...Until they figure that out, there will always be a drug problem

People really do want to get sober ( I'm one)

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What state do u live in

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I have been struggling with Suboxone as my drug of choice for almost 3 or 4 years. I do NOT want to take it anymore, I also do NOT want to take any opiods or painkillers anymore. My friend passed away a year ago and quite honestly nobody can get anything anymore anyway. Suboxone has saved me a lot financially but unfortunately I am just hooked on something else I do not want to be on. I've gained at least 40lbs in the past 2-3 years. Be careful choosing a doctor, my first doctor had me on 16mg for several months, way more than I needed. He rarely ever wanted to lower my dose, always worried about me relapsing... and wanted visits 2x a week sometimes. I was forced into a detox/rehab which I stayed at the detox for 7 nights, they did not know what to do with me as I was clean of everything else. They gave me a lot of stuff to just make me sleep. I didn't sweat or go to the bathroom until the last day when the cut me off of whatever they were giving me.. their "cocktail". I was very sick the first few weeks in rehab and left after 65 days at maybe 70% health. They did a horrible job knowing nothing about Subs and treated me like a H addict. I was seeing a doctor, had a prescription, and they ripped me right off of it.
I came back home and was sick for weeks, very depressed, and had no motivation. Eventually I cracked, relapsed, got a job some how due to the motivation, was given health benefits and went to see another Sub doctor who started me at a much lower dose and has been tampering me down for almost 6 months now. 10mg, 8mg, 6mg, 4mg, and now I am on the verge of going down to 2mg a day next visit. I've realized it sucks the first few days, first week maybe when you drop down but it goes away.
NOW I JUST LOST MY JOB DUE TO LAY OFFS DUE TO LACK OF WORK WITH 4 OTHERS ON THE COMPANY PLAN. My doctor visits were cash only and not much so that wasn't a problem, but I KNOW Subs are expensive, about 12-13 each no matter that the MG. I am really afraid and can't believe the horrible timing. My advise to anyone is NEVER start Suboxone, fight it out off of the oxy's, h, whatever else... Subs are just another form of drug and extremely strong despite not being "dangerous" as doctors claim.
I am sorry for the long post but believe me Suboxone is a scam, it's ruined my life the past 3-4 years, I've lost a career over it as I had a doctor say that employers can't check for it no need to show them the script, I didn't, I popped dirty, showed the script and was still let go due to dishonesty. I want off this stuff so bad, I remember detoxing off of 30mg oxy's and after about 3-4 days starting to feel normal again even thought it was hell... imagine that times 100, as Subs come out much slower, they linger in you, make you lazy, uninterested in anything, no appetite, the worst headaches and stomach issues ever, you will run to the toilet 30 seconds after eating anything.
I hope I can finally get off these, but then I know the depression and pain that occurs afterwards... god bless everyone here. Don't start this stuff or at least find a doctor who is recommended and willing to taper you down and not just dope you up.

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Please help,
I need suboxone and don't have much money. I have Aetna insurance. Does anyone know if Aetna covers this? I live in nj.

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You have to call call call be a pain in the ass to the Dr so they won't forget I have atnea and it needs prior authorization to pay for script it took 2 weeks for anyone to do anything calling insurance to Dr office back to back making sure they did there job Dr will say yes we sent fax then insurance say we never got, you have to hold these people hand to make sure they do it right! This kind of med isnt one of those "u can miss a day" med! Anyways, this went on 2 week finally insurance got fax had to wait 24-48 hr for review then 3 day waiting they said Dr left the treatment plan blank n had wait few more days just to be denied! Cause Dr didn't have the right creditional but Dr says he does have all that now I'm waiting for appeal but they want to start setting up the assistance program which I'm sure means I've been denied
Aneta also override my script cause it taking forever so they got me on med for week started to get to normal just to cut me off so for the moment I'm paying out of pocket $120 a week methadone was lot cheaper but I owe methadone clinic $800 +$400 month to continue cause of the insurance screwed me over an stopped paying out of nowhere an it took clinic two month to realize. Im a 19 year old girl with a 35hr $10 minimum wage job who just want to start over!

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They do!
but if u read my reply under Kristina
Find a Dr. That has to right opiate dependency treatment credentials (I forgot the name of the cerification they had to have) or you will be denied. I could be paying $40 copay got stuck paying $120 a week the Dr said he had all the certification But I don't know what happened now I'm waiting on an appeal. It took two week of calling back and forth to get anything done just to get denied during that wait time they did a 1-time override paid for my scrpit and got me on sub and back to normal then cut me off!

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