Suboxone Help? Insurance? (Top voted first)

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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 a former heroin addict originally from ct now living in florida and tried calling several different locations which prescribed saboxin. All of which are out of my price range and i found out that it was actually cheaper to get high than it is to get help, unfortunatlly. However i did find somebody off the street that sells them for a reasonalble price. So keep lookin around and im sure youll come across a good connect wether its a doctor or a dealer but really, whats the difference.....ha

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Hi Ive been on suboxone for almost 5 yrs any 1 have any questions about the medication please ask away!.

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My daughter has been on suboxone for 1 yr and 2 months. The suboxone program only last for 1 year. We are now paying 646.00 a month. So she said the same thing cheaper to get high. I have almost lost her so many times to heroin. I have tried all the free meds and etc. nothing is working. Right before she got on suboxone she was on a ventilator in the hospital. We thought she was going to have her life back. It's like the pharmaceutical company gets you on it for a year and then you can't live without it. Shame on them. This is my daughters life.

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I am currently on the Suboxone Assistance program. If you qualify they will send you a prescription card, I am currently covered 100% and pay NOTHING for 60 films/mo. Here is the number that is on the back of my card: 888-898-4818.
Good luck!!

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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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The makers of Suboxone offers a Paitens Assistance Program if you meet the requierments. I am on the program now. Also Aetna will pay for Suboxone. But they will not cover you if you tell them that your on it when you sign up.

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how do i reach them?

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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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If u can find a suboxone dr. who takes medicare your co-pay will be around $35 until u meet ur deductible. If u look hard enough u can find a suboxone dr. who takes medicare and medicaid. u wont pay but $1.00. there may be a waiting list but get on the list and they will probably tell u that u have to pay cash for ur drug panel, but that isnt true. Our medicare pays 19.95 for the drug panel and if the doc takes medicare then he has agreed to accept whatever they pay for services. I have noticed that quite a few clinics try to get us to pay for drug panels but keep an eye on ur medicare statement and u will see that they cover drug panels. If the doc charges $50 for the panel ur medicare will pay 19.95. And they have to accept that and u don't owe them a dime more.

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Yes, that is probably a good idea. You should see if you can obtain your state's medical coverage.

Have you contact anyone about it?

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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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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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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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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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Anthem covered my scripts for buprenorphine between 2005 through 2013. My plan with Anthem changed with the "Affordable Health Care Act". Anthem denied any payment for buprenorphine, effective January 1, 2014. The pharmacist was told they would pay for 16 tablets of Suboxone every 78 days. Being bipolar and on medications to treat it since 1990, I have required buprenorphine to avoid agony and relapse. The FDA approves the drug for the uses prescribed for me and the "Affordable Health Care Act" has "insured" that there be no discrimination between mental health and other health care treatments.

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If you think it's cheaper on the streets then it is to go to the clinic, you probably don't take enough to need it! I pay a third of what I did and I have no insurance at all.. but get Obama care.. a lot of the insurers have an addiction treatment plan.

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I am not sure if there are any assistance plans that cover it, or not. You can try the manufacturers website or contact number, some other programs are

pparx.org

needymeds.org

and rxassist.org

Hopefully one of those may be able to help you.

To be honest, the COBRA price is much cheaper than the cost of the Suboxone treatment every month, however, I also realize it is still unaffordable.

Please post back and let us know how you are doing!

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if you are disable , an fall within income limits you should qualify for medicaid card until medicare an part d kicks in

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What happens if youve been on Suboxone Under COBRA Insurance which is about up for me and yu do not list it as a pre existing condition? Will they cover it or pull your policy. I am afraid to mention it as I might get denied. Any help would be great. Thank you

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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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