Suboxone Help? Insurance? (Page 4)
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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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What state do u live in

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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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she said she doesn't have any insurance..

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I had a great doctor in Chicago for six years. I was an over-the-road truck driver, which meant I could not show up for regular appointments. I paid $75 every other prescription for the "office visit", and when generic buprenorphine became available, thirty pills were $130 at Walmart.
Now that I have moved to the South, no doctor will work with my schedule, no doctor will prescribe generics, all want me to pay for and attend weekly "therapy", and the doctor's fees are extortionate. What's worst of all is that I had to quit my job to obtain treatment.
I don't know how I'll pay for it all. I don't relish the thought of having to return to crime to pay for my habit. I hope I can find some different sort of work, but I am in my fifties. The initial couple of "visits", and the first script will clean me out. Obamacare does not take effect until 2014, (assuming that's not sabotaged), and the drug war seems far from over, in spite of recent progress. I thought the buprenorphine law was to give us our lives back, to allow us to live with simple dignity, but it seems the rehab industry has clawed its way into this area, too.

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I had a great doctor in Chicago for six years. I was an over-the-road truck driver, which meant I could not show up for regular appointments. I paid $75 every other prescription for the "office visit", and when generic buprenorphine became available, thirty pills were $130 at Walmart.
Now that I have moved to the South, no doctor will work with my schedule, no doctor will prescribe generics, all want me to pay for and attend weekly "therapy", and the doctor's fees are extortionate. What's worse, is that I had to quit my job to obtain treatment.
I don't know how I'll pay for it all. I don't relish the thought of having to return to crime to pay for my habit. I hope I can find some different sort of work, but I am in my fifties. The initial couple of "visits", and the first script will clean me out.

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I have medicare and medicade and my prescription plan is healthsprings. I was paying 3.30 for 90 strips. now i pay nothing its just how my insurance is. but i am having trouble paying for the doctor visit i pay 260 monthly and have to attend 4 groups a month. I know 260 sounds cheap to some people but im on a fixed income. I pay what i can when i can but i cant seem to catch up on my payments.

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I am prescribed buprenorphine 3 8MG TABLETS a day i pay $350 for the doctor vist i get 90 a month but medacade wont cover my prescription it need dr. Auth required which he never answers so i have to pay an extra $368 just to pick it up from the phramacay i can not afford that is there any time of insurance that does not need dr. Auth required or some kind of help

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