Been using them for at least 3 years now as I believe a few others have and this year, many health issues and quite frankly they have been wonderful and not turned me down for any prescriptions that included the cost of weekly infusions from a nurse who comes to me. So I actually can understand the increase as far as I am concerned. Im in Florida and it’s usually one of the highest States, so I just wondered if any others have noticed this and increases across the board. Mine is nearly 4 times more, each month starting from next year and I have reached what they called the catastrophic level…sounds bad but still dont quite understand it.
I hear ya. Aetna stinks. Constantly have to fight for wife’s eye shots. The med that works on the right eye took 6 shots and she now has vision in that eye. Start on the left eye with the med Aetna wants and she’s gone a year (12 shots) and Aetna “FINALLY” approved the med that was used on the other eye. Makes a lot of sense. I went through a similiar fight to get a med I needed for cellulitis on my legs.
I can’t drop Aetna because the company I retired from won’t let you back in once you drop them. In my humble opinion Aetna sucks a big one.
what are these shots your wife is taking just purely out of interest as might need something like this down the road and can take this t a PM if needed.
I can’t comment on them being a bad company as such. My question really was, have their prices increased dramatically, or as mentioned, is it just as I have multiple prescriptions for the whole year and continuing and therefore penalized because of this?
Hi Branmin. On advice of the boss I can’t give you the names of the drugs but she did say one costs more than the other and Aetna wants you to use the “cheapy” drug before they will approve the better drug. I can say one of the drug names begins with an “L” and the other with an “E”.