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I spoke to my insurance company and they gave me some info they weren't supposed to: the real price of Mepron.
Full retail for my last order of 9 bottles is $12,000!! ($1,333 per bottle).
The insurance company gets a discount which brings it down to "only" $8000 ($888 per bottle).
And my cost for my last order was $85 per bottle.
What could possibly cost this much, gold dust? With that kind of profit, I would think that someone will make a generic version after the patents expire at the end of the year.
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wow! FOLOW THE MONEY again; thx for nfo!
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This is one drug in which it going generic may not have big yields for us consumers. This isn't like GERD, anti-histimines, anti-depressants,s PPIs, etc. where they farm them to the whole U.S. population like candy.
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12,000 / 9 = 1,333 not 13,333. Still crazy, but I was confused when I saw that. Then you mention $85 per bottle at the end I assume you are missing another digit there?
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I think Seekhelp is joking about 'magically', by the way.
Anyway, the situation with Mepron will probably be like Alinia- it's used in rare-ish cases, but overseas manufacturers will eventually start to make it when the patent expires. I think Alinia used to be $1500/month and it's now more like under $100/month from India, but it'll probably take a while to see India etc start to produce Mepron when the US patent expires since it is a less common drug.
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Yeah, you were right, I put the comma in the wrong place. (Now edited down to $1300 per bottle).
But my cost of $85 is correct, after insurance. I think it will go to $0 as there is a prescription yearly cost cap on my plan.
Mepron's PRIMARY purpose is for fighting malaria which is much more widespread in the world than Babs. I think I read somewhere it's the number 1 killer of humans.
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Mepron is also used for pneumocystis in AIDS patients, which are plentiful in the U.S. Not sure how many of them get pneumocystis though.
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Also used for toxoplasmosis.
You can get it at costco for around $875 per bottle. You don't need a membership. This was last year so maybe the price went up.
Mepron helped me a LOT. It was a lot of money but well worth it for me. It will be really great to see the prices come down so that we can all aford to use it in our treatment.
I'm still treating babesia but can't afford mepron at the moment so I'm on malarone.
Terry I'm not a doctor
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