Suboxone Provider Who Accepts Insurance Wanted
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Please tell me why I can't find a physician that provides Suboxone and accepts insurance?

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Suboxone is an awesome pain reliever I took Oxcodone for 20 yrs and still suffered horriblebly I have been on suboxone for 1 year the Dr. visit is 125$ a month and my insurance pays for the meds this is the best way to go I am so glad I got off opieates my life is great now pain free lost 68 pounds and feel like I am 20 again at first I had to pay for it all but finally the insurance kicked in they won’t pay for the Dr. but will pay for the medication it was the best thing I ever did if u take too much u will throw up it is strong but it works...

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Because the entire medical community is making a fortune & a doctor prescribing Suboxone is definitely shady himself.

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I am in Ohio, I paid $250 for office visit and $7.50 a piece for pills. I hurt my back on the job and have an open workers comp. claim and they won't even pay for it. I am tapering off and it's not easy. I wish I would of never taken that first one, but I was very sick.

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I have been on suboxone for 9 months 8mg 4x's a day and I recently found out medicaid wont pay for it. O.k. what now got 120 cant fill they want us off but wont help. I am a engineer. I went to college I trusted a internal medicine doc. A mistake I will pay forever, thx goverment.

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It depends what you mean by 'accepts insurance'. I 'accept insurance' in my practice.. I don't accept the insurance as 'total payment', though, because every insurer pays differently-- usually depending on how expensive the insurance policy is. Suboxone patients are treated exactly the same as any of the patients in my general psychiatry practice. One insurer may pay $30, and for the same service another insurer pays $150! So if my charge for the service is $155, the first patient will have to pay an additional $125, and the second patient will have to pay $5.

The other issue is the deductible that most patients have to pay, so that their insurance won't kick in until they have paid $500 or sometimes more out of pocket. This is one area where I do treat Suboxone patients differently. For general psych patients I might see the person and then bill the person for payment. This doesn't work in a practice treating opiate addicts-- many of whom are seeking treatment only after getting busted stealing checks from family members. I should point out that I am a recovering addict-- nothing personal against other addicts. But anyone who is being honest will admit that the doctor bill is going to be the very last to get paid-- and is often never get paid at all. So the only way to treat opiate addicts without going out of business is to ask for payment up front. That is, by the way, how most treatment centers work-- for any substance. Methadone is also the same-- an addict who doesn't pay at the methadone clinic does not receive the dose-- period.

Most opiate addicts are paying up to a dollar per mg for OC-- often over $100 per day. They can find Suboxone treatment for the cost of a few days of using!! So any addict who truly wants treatment can use the same energy they used to buy the OC to come up with the cost for treatment. That is a good screening tool, since the people who do well in treatment tend to be those who really want to get better.

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Because only a limited number of doctors can prescribe Suboxone, they must take special training classes to be allowed to prescribe it.

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