Insurance plans for Rebif

[getbozman]

I have MS and have been taking Rebif foe 7 years.  It has worked very well.  I just learned that my current drug insurance plan  from Humana will not cover Rebif in 2015.  What plans cover at least some of the Rebif cost?  My copay with Humana was about $300 per month.  Would like not to exceed this amount.

[Lulu54]

Please contact their patient support group now and work through the options with them... if Rebif has been working you hate to make a change.  There are very good patient assistance programs and like C wrote, they often bring the copay down to zero.  

I believe Rebif and Copaxone are about to fall off the list of drugs eligible for us in the UK on the NHS... they didn't feel the efficacy of the drug was worth the cost.  One of the injectables fell off our formulary last year too, I think it might have been betaseron would no longer be covered.

Good luck with sorting it out - perhaps now would be the time to move on to one of the oral drugs?

-Laura

[calamfred]

Do you qualify for any assistance from say, Rebif?
My hubby has insurance, but our out of pocket costs were still quite a bit every month for his Betaseron. We contacted them, and actually got it set up where we now pay 0. And it worked out that any other people who are also insured by my hubby's same employer can also get this assistance.

No one had ever asked about it before we did. And it took several months for us to ask, because I mistakenly assumed since we had insurance,we wouldn't qualify. Always pays to at least ask.

Here's a link to Rebif assistance info:

http://www.rebif.com/rebif-co-pay

Regards,
C