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$500 for XARELTO?

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We have Medicare Part D for RX. DW is getting her hip replaced and the price for 30 days of XARELTO (a blood thinner to prevent clots) was over $500. With GoodRX the price was over $600. Has anybody run into crazy prices like this? Did you find a way around it?
 
artringwald said:
We have Medicare Part D for RX. DW is getting her hip replaced and the price for 30 days of XARELTO (a blood thinner to prevent clots) was over $500. With GoodRX the price was over $600. Has anybody run into crazy prices like this? Did you find a way around it?
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You may be able to get it for $80/mo.

Go here:

Official Patient Website | XARELTO® (rivaroxaban)

The XARELTO® (rivaroxaban) official patient website. See full Prescribing & Safety Information, including Boxed Warnings.
www.xarelto-us.com www.xarelto-us.com
 
It was $850/mo for me. I was shocked to find there wasn't any way to get the price discounted.
 
artringwald said:
We have Medicare Part D for RX. DW is getting her hip replaced and the price for 30 days of XARELTO (a blood thinner to prevent clots) was over $500. With GoodRX the price was over $600. Has anybody run into crazy prices like this? Did you find a way around it?
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I take Eliquis. The most I've paid for a 3 month supply was $900+. My last refill was for $132. Also, what I had my PA was to write the prescription for 5 mg tablets, which I then split in half as I need 2.5 mg twice a day. In pricing it out a 3 month supply of 5 mg tablets was cheaper than the 2.5 mg. So I am getting a 6 month supply.

What I found with a lot of the "discount" programs is that they don't work if you are on Medicare Part D.
 
Passepartout said:
Xarelto (and Eliquis) are among the first 10 drugs that are on the list that will be negotiated for Medicare recipients.
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I am so hoping this brings the prices down, and soon.
 
A little off topic... Med prices are crazy. My wife has been on a $4,700/month medication for her RA, and the Dr just added a new medication which is $13,000 per month! Thank God for our great insurance, as she pays only a $20 co-pay. Can anyone beat that? ;)

Kurt
 
My husband uses Trulicity for his type 2 diabetes. First 3 months it is under $300 for 3 months and then next 2 fills of 3 months, it is just under $800 per order, before coming out of the donut hole and the price will drop back to a couple of hundred dollars. We just factor the cost into our budget because that drug is the best thing for his diabetes ever.
 
What really plucks my nerves is seeing so many TV commercials for prescription medications. I'm not going to insult my doctors by asking if a drug is right for me. I trust them enough to keep up on new drugs, and they should know what's best for me. The amount RX companies spend on commercials just adds to the cost to us. :mad:
 
PigsDad said:
A little off topic... Med prices are crazy. My wife has been on a $4,700/month medication for her RA, and the Dr just added a new medication which is $13,000 per month! Thank God for our great insurance, as she pays only a $20 co-pay. Can anyone beat that? ;)

DW is on a $13,000/mo Ibrutinib which is the highest amout the Gov't pays for any drug. Then another one has a 5% copay of $300/mo.

Drug prices are cripling.
 
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Very often US drug companies sell the very same drugs overseas for a fraction of the cost. I had one prescription that would have been $120 a month without insurance in the US, but still $60 with insurance, but I could buy all I wanted in Romania (or Moldova or Hungary for that matter) for $10 a month cash price.

It is not only US drug companies that play games like that. When I was working full time overseas, I knew a woman who was a drug rep for an Israeli drug company, and she told me that her companies drug were sold to pharmacies at significantly cheaper prices if they were labeled in Russian than if they were labelled in Romanian, but they would not sell them in Romania if they were labelled in Russian. Since Moldova had some Russian speakers, they sold them both ways there, so some Romanian pharmacies hooked up with Moldovan counterparts and bought them in bulk labelled in Russian but then dispensed them in their own bottles in their own country labelled in Romanian.

I would check what the prices of these drugs would be in other countries, but make sure you go through legitimate pharmacies.
 
PigsDad said:
A little off topic... Med prices are crazy. My wife has been on a $4,700/month medication for her RA, and the Dr just added a new medication which is $13,000 per month! Thank God for our great insurance, as she pays only a $20 co-pay. Can anyone beat that? ;)

Kurt
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Yes, but I paid for it in advance by going to war and then lasting 20+ years in service.
No need for Part D, but the not so great customer service and the long wait lines at military pharmacies are how I 'pay' now.
 
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artringwald said:
We have Medicare Part D for RX. DW is getting her hip replaced and the price for 30 days of XARELTO (a blood thinner to prevent clots) was over $500. With GoodRX the price was over $600. Has anybody run into crazy prices like this? Did you find a way around it?
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Have you looked into a different Part D provider?
 
Passepartout said:
I get 90 days' Xarelto for $33 from the VA. Thanks, America!
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Like @DRIless, I get mine for nothing, just a trip to the pharmacy at Fort Belvoir, less than ten miles away. Wait times are tolerable, depending on when one arrives.

I'm puzzled by OP's connection of hip replacement surgery and Xarelto. Discontinuation of blood thinners is recommended for even minor surgeries and things like tooth extractions.
 
chapjim said:
Like @DRIless, I get mine for nothing, just a trip to the pharmacy at Fort Belvoir, less than ten miles away. Wait times are tolerable, depending on when one arrives.

I'm puzzled by OP's connection of hip replacement surgery and Xarelto. Discontinuation of blood thinners is recommended for even minor surgeries and things like tooth extractions.
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Discontinuation is generally recommended before some procedures, BUT blood thinners can be recommend after injuries, procedures that have you off your feet for a while…a few times I have had to take Lovenox injections for a bit.
 
chapjim said:
Like @DRIless, I get mine for nothing, just a trip to the pharmacy at Fort Belvoir, less than ten miles away. Wait times are tolerable, depending on when one arrives.

I'm puzzled by OP's connection of hip replacement surgery and Xarelto. Discontinuation of blood thinners is recommended for even minor surgeries and things like tooth extractions.
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She has a clotting factor, and is more prone than most to clotting. The Xarelto is for post surgery.
 
artringwald said:
She has a clotting factor, and is more prone than most to clotting. The Xarelto is for post surgery.
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I don't have a workaround, but perhaps the maker has a short term- like a 'starter' supply for patients who will just need it for, say 30 days or so? The thing that put Xarento and Eliquis on the negotiated price list was that there is no good generic alternative. Warfarin is a low cost anticoagulent, and Lovinox is a clot buster, but both are difficult to adjust the dose on, and good-ol' aspirin can cause stomach problems.

Maybe just biting the bullet and paying the price for the Xarelto is the best drug for your wife's situation.

Best wishes for her new hip. I hope she is up and comfortably traveling soon.

Jim
 
I've been on Xarelto for a few years now for aFib, $45 for 90 day supply mail order. Dr offered samples at first, maybe that is an option.
 
chapjim said:
Like @DRIless, I get mine for nothing, just a trip to the pharmacy at Fort Belvoir, less than ten miles away. Wait times are tolerable, depending on when one arrives.

I'm puzzled by OP's connection of hip replacement surgery and Xarelto. Discontinuation of blood thinners is recommended for even minor surgeries and things like tooth extractions.
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As I said I am already on Eliquis, which I needed to stop prior to a hip replacement. But after the surgery I was immediately put back on. And if I hadn't already been taking Eliquis I would have had to inject myself with a blood thinner. All patients post surgery had to do this. This was one of the few times I was glad I was on Eliquis.
 
SmithOp said:
I've been on Xarelto for a few years now for aFib, $45 for 90 day supply mail order. Dr offered samples at first, maybe that is an option.
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Where/how were you able to find that?
 
Luanne said:
I take Eliquis. The most I've paid for a 3 month supply was $900+. My last refill was for $132. Also, what I had my PA was to write the prescription for 5 mg tablets, which I then split in half as I need 2.5 mg twice a day. In pricing it out a 3 month supply of 5 mg tablets was cheaper than the 2.5 mg. So I am getting a 6 month supply.

What I found with a lot of the "discount" programs is that they don't work if you are on Medicare Part D.
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FWIW: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=eliquis&i=amazon-pharmacy&ref=nb_sb_noss

This is one of those crazy examples for how bad drug prices can get. I'm not on medicare and my cost via insurance is $15 per month for the 5mg tablets.
 

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