prescribed Erleada = $26,000 usd a month

[-db123_]

currently on firmagon or degarelix

Just prescribed ERLEADA OR APALUTAMIDE MD Aerson pharmacy lists $26,000 month.

I don’t have a drug plan till January.

Where can I buy it lower cost?

[Atdabeach]

Check GoodRx. I got my abiraterone from my local Rite Aid, but used GoodRx instead of my insurance, as it was much cheaper.

[dhccpa in reply to Atdabeach]

I doubt GoodRx would save much on Erleada, but I'd love to learn otherwise!

[DrawingSnowmen]

The company has a program to help pay for it if your income is low enough (below about 100K I think). Go to their website and apply.

[bdrakes]

check internet- google drug name and generic comps. My wife was on fertility drugs etc. insurance didn’t cover which with Good RX Walgreens was $3,900, Rite Aid $3,600, Costco $3,400. Got the exact brand drug from France $900 even included Fed Ex overnight- came to front door in shoe box sized freezer pack. In 48 hours from time of online order. Our twins are 19 and perfect healthy young adults so the meds were perfectly fine. The industry will use fear to mitigate global reach for health care but the West lives in a double standard where on one hand we are taught the merits of a “free market economy” and the “invisible hand” that moves efficiency and best products and free competition towards best solutions/pricing ultimately rewarding both consumers and manufacturers. That is often not the case with multi-billion dollar big pharmaceutical companies where they use legislation, fear, disinformation to minimize folks purchasing outside their kingdoms.

Don’t listen when someone says “you can’t trust a product you inject/injest/spoon into your body from a foreign country. A large portion of the food you’re eating, drinking daily is already coming from the cheapest import locations globally from countries where if you knew the sources might never want to eat from ever again if you based every move on fear. I’m not going to give and names but there are hundreds of “world class” businesses that you’ll find your meds at for probably half of what you’ll pay in the USA. I’ve purchased meds from Canada, Mexico , India, Switzerland, South Africa, all in addition to France and will perfect efficacy. Good luck

[bdrakes]

also forgot to add try:

Mark Cuban Cost plus drugs if you are not interested in offshore access. He’s a billionaire who has a big heart and has set up a wholesale pharmacy that is reducing costs for most drugs amazingly due to convictions that Americans shouldn’t be bankrupt due to poor health. It’s a life saver for many folks.

[RS265]

The unsubsidized cost in Australia for you as a visitor is USD 2450pm. Australians are billed USD 22pm under our "socialist" medical system.👍

[Slick714]

If you happen to be in California you might not have to wait till January to switch Medicare plans. Because of the fires this year being declared a disaster, I am able to switch from my MAP plan, to Medicare A B D G 11/1. I found out about this from CITY OF Hope and I was already accepted by the Medigap plan, and everything kicks in Friday. Hope this is applicable to you.

[KocoPr]

why can’t you stay on firmagon till January?

[Leaffan57]

no charge in Ontario if approved by the Ministry

[Grandpa4]

I would check with the doctor who wrote the prescription. This kind of thing happens all the time so as a physician you learn the work arounds. Guessing he had suggestions.

[Luka77]

I’m also on Erleada. I was in a clinical trial with Colorado Urology in Lakewood Colorado through Dr. Cahn and received the firmigon and Erleada for free. Then decided to leave the trial and work with Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers. They were able to get me two weeks of free samples and then Jannsen the supplier of Erleada granted me three months of free Erleada to get me to January of 2025 when the new Medicare out of pocket max for prescriptions will be $2000 per year. Your prescriber should be able to definitely help you get free Erleada until 2025. Make sure your Medicare drug plan covers it in 2025.

I’ve had great response from the doublet therapy with Erleada.

Good luck!

[85236442968]

-db123_

Tell them you cannot afford it and then ask what the cash, no insurance price is. Probably about 10% or less. Yes the Insurance companies are &%#$)@) us.

Good RX will not touch it.

Also ask the MO why you need to change now with Insurance coming in Jan.

[HotRod4321]

J&J (Johnson & Johnson) via Janssen (which may be changing) offer free medicine if your income is low enough. They also provide counselling, which I have found VERY helpful.

myjanssencarepath.com/

Above URL (Uniform Resource Locator = web address) would be current, I think, place to start. I say that I think as my counsellor has said they are shuffling names and companies around, so, names and addresses may change. Also, your medical care staff should be able to help by either doing all this for you, and/or pointing you in the right direction.

There are many grants (of which I was put into, by my medical team, that help with dollars).

Bottom line: if anyone cannot afford these lifesaving medicines, there is plenty of help out there.

BTW: I am in USA and have Medicare ((if you choose B (doctors), then you MUST choose D (Prescriptions). HOWEVER, I choose C (Advantage Plans available only by zip code, my zip code allows me to have Aetna Medicare Essentials PPO (Preferred Provider Organization) which allows me to choose my doctors and medical team and includes Prescription coverage. You can find what is available to you at the Medicare website. Medicare is currently in Open Enrollment phase (Allows you to choose any option you would like). I've been with Aetna for over a decade and am very happy. Erleada = retail $26k; thru Aetna Medicare Rx = $15k w/$750 copay (I used to have, copay paid by grant); thru Janssen = $0 (which is what I currently have).

We all walk the same path. Good luck in your journey. Godspeed!

[TheLarch]

My specialty pharmacies in the USA price them out at ~$16,000 USD per bottle of 120 tablets (60mg ea). I have an extra 3-4 month supply since I had interactions with my BP meds so I was on a reduced dose. The pharmacies can't break open the bottles of 120 tablets so they shipped me full bottles every month. It's crazy, they can't send me less and I can't resell or even give them away.

[hfl20]

I also was prescribed Erleada by MDACC. With my traditional medicare and the part D plan, the copay was about $1300/mo (in 2022) and dropped to about $700/mo after the "donut hole". For 2023, MDACC pharmacy gave me the grant application for Janssen (now J&J) which I filled out the they sent in for me. Now with Medicare in 2025 it is max $2000 out of pocket but if applicable you still could apply for the grant. It was sent to me directly from the chosen specialty pharmacy of Janssen at the time at no cost.