Theoren1

Does your insurance not cover it or do you have a large deductible?

Also, have you looked in to assistance programs? Has the insurance said what their preferred replacement is?

I work in pharmacy, if you showed up in my pharmacy, I’d run this prescription through, if your insurance didn’t cover it, we’d have the doctor either try to get a prior authorization or switch to the preferred medication.

If you had a huge deductible, I’d get on Taltz site and try to get you set up with the manufacturer’s coupon program.

So, how can I help?

Edit: 1-844-TALTZ-NOW (1-844-825-8966). Call and they will work with your insurance company to get you covered

Drive by Brett's house with your wife and see if her phone connects to wifi

Good opportunity for me to point out, I work at what is referred to as an “independent pharmacy”. And all that means is we aren’t Walgreens, CVS, Wal-Mart , etc.

In the last 10 years, 40% of independent pharmacies have closed in America. The irony of my work on a drug like Taltz, a high cost biologic, is OP’s insurance almost certainly would never let him pick it up from my pharmacy. Often with expensive medications, even after I do the work lined out above, insurance companies either mail you the drug directly or make you acquire it from a different pharmacy.

However, I know damn near all of my patients, you aren’t just a number. I hook it up. I attend weddings and funerals, I hug when you get good news, I hug harder when you get bad news. This isn’t my job, this is my career, I work in medicine and I’m on your healthcare team.

But Walmart has $4 generics, so there is that.

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