shweflen, while I'm waiting to hear this month's generic imatinib mesylate price, have you signed up with CIGNA for your 2018 Medicare Part D, and if so, have they given you an estimate for the cost of your drugs, particularly generic imatinib mesylate?
Hoping to hear from Dom too.
date Rx total cost I paid deductible YTD phase 2 YTD coverage gap YTD
1/24 imatinib 1593.82 698.45 400.00 1593.82 698.45
2/27 imatinib 1593.82 398.45 3187.69 1096.90
3/9 misc 10.00 10.00 3197.69 1106.90
3/9 misc 37.43 37.43 3235.12 1144.33
3/28 imatinib 1593.82 691.96 3700.00 1836.29
4/21 imatinib 1593.82 812.85 2649.18
4/27 misc 18.85 9.62 2658.76
5/31 imatinib 1593.82 812.85 3471.61
6/12 misc 10.00 5.10 3476.71
6/13 misc 37.43 19.09 3495.80
7/3 imatinib 1593.82 812.85 4308.65
7/28 imatinib 1593.82 658.16 4950.00
8/3 imatinib 1593.82 79.69
9/9 misc 47.43 6.60
9/27 misc 6.57 3.78
9/28 imatinib 5044.87 252.24
10/31 imatinib 5643.55 282.18
11/4 misc 17.14 3.30
11/7 misc 3.95 3.30
11/24 imatinib 5461.22 273.06
For next year I have elected to go with Humana Walmart Rx Plan. The CIGNA quantity limit and the fact that I couldn't get any assurance that they would grant a waiver plus the 2 star customer service rating convinced me to go with Humana even though the estimated price was somewhat higher. I also take medicines for hypertension and high cholesterol but the price of those is insignificant. In the Medicare Plan Finder I entered just the imatinib as my regular prescription. Their estimate under the Humana policy was: full price = $3834.32
Jan deductible = $405 copay = $836.25 gap = $37.10 total = $1278.35
Feb gap = $1687.10 total = $1687.10
Mar gap = $1687.10 total = $1687.10
Apr gap = $347.45 catastrophic = $152.23 total = $499.68
May thru Dec catastrophic = $191.72 total = $191.72
$6685.99
All of which doesn't mean a lot since, apparently, the prices can triple, quadruple or whatever at any time without constraint.
10/20/2016 BCR-ABL:ABL = 81.622
01/11/2017 BCR-ABL:ABL = 8.028
04/12/2017 BCR-ABL:ABL = 0.157
07/07/2017 BCR-ABL:ABL = 0.000
10/04/2017 BCR-ABL:ABL = 0.041
11/28/2017 BCR-ABL:ABL = 0.000