22 replies to this topic

[Tenderheart]

How much is your Gleevec? Mine has gone up over 40% in one month.

[hannibellemo]

When I first started taking G not quite 3 years ago it was over $125 per pill. Are you sure you did your math correctly? That price seems low to me. My Sprycel is slightly over $266 per pill.

From what I hear from others their price for G is around $180 per pill currently.

Pat

[HeatherZ]

Mine has gone up quite a bit the last couple months.  Mine is over $200/pill now.

[Stevea]

mine went up more then $30 a pill in the last 6 months, it's now at $184 or so per pill.

[PhilB]

Are you by any chance taking 4 pills a day of 100mg rather than the 400mg pill everyone else is quoting numbers for?

Phil

[CDW]

the price on my Tasigna box is $5500 for 28 days supply. works out to be $45 per pill = $180/day. Some people would argue i'm not worth that much

Chris

[JeffJ]

I was paying about $130.00 a pill for 400mg of Gleevec until August /11.  Now on Sprycel and the cost is just over $78.00 per 50 mg pill. Currently taking 100mg a day.  I live in Ontario Canada.  Jeff

[Tenderheart]

Thanks everyone. I should have said I take 100 mg pills. At 6 tabs a day it gets pricey~~

[grannyd]

I take tasigna--$8250.00 for 28 day supply. I take 4 a day--that cost $294.00 a day or $73.00 a pill!!!!

[mmdojr81]

Tenderheart,

Without insurance it would cost me $186 per pill. Rediculous! I have heard the patent will end soon which will lower the cost.

Good luck,

Mario

[roamingdoc83]

How Expensive is Gleevec? Well, it is delivery by BRINKS to my pharmacy, with an armed guard!  ;^)

But I no longer buy it. I'm out of insurance and, because of varied doses, have enough for about 8 months.

Then the fun begins. Will try for someother insurance coverage, pray and hope. Take care

[JaniePoo2U]

Mine started out in April of 2010 for a 90 day supply (if I had no insurance) around $14,000+...........my last 90 day supply in May of 2013 if I didn't have insurance would have been $19,000+

[CMLSurvivor]

My pharmacy recently switched their computer system and the last couple months tried to charge me $7,000 each time it took about a hour before the head pharmacist overrode the system.

[Susan61]

HI:  What did you actually pay for a 90 day supply.  I get a 90 day supply of Gleevec for $112.00, and my doctor writes for 3 refills.  Last Year I was paying $80.00 for a 90 day supply.  Thats why I am so afraid of losing our insurance that we presently have.  I am stuggling even at this rate with all the other medical bills.

      I do not know what people are going to do in the future with the way things are going.

Susan

[JaniePoo2U]

I have Cigna and I use the Cigna Tel-Drug and it's $87 every 90 days as it's considered a "specialty" drug.  I wonder why it has to be considered a "chemo" drug or a "specialty" drug when it sorta kinda does the same thing like Metformin would do for a diabetic.  It keeps their glucose blood level controlled, where Gleevec keeps our white counts controlled.

[momruns]

Greetings,

I was on Gleevac and paid $4680/month or $156 per pill, Then I went on Sprycel and then Boslif and they went up a little.  I am now on Ponanitib and that is $9880/month and that means $322 per pill.  There are only about 2200 people on this drug since its release in Dec 2012.  Ariad the manufacture wants no one to pay more that $20 per month to take this drug so my insurance pays everything except $80/month and then Ariad pays $60 of the $80.  So far for me this is the cheapest because of the co=pay help.

Loreta

[0vercast]

Both of the sources my insurance accepts cost exactly the same: $7800 for 30 pills, or $260 per.

I hope I'm worth it.

[Marnie]

You are

[ronaldo]

Being able to afford Gleevec is a real problem for most of us.  Medicare Advantage left me looking at a $10,000+ out of pocket per year.  I looked online for a reputable, certified, and reliable Canadian drug company as a more economical alternative.  I found two:  PlanetDrugsDirect.com and NorthWestPharmacy.com.  PlanetDrugsDirect has 400mg generic imatinib for $848 for a 90 day supply; NorthWestPharmacy has it for $1600.  I preferred to use the latter, and thanks to their price guarantee, I was able to call them up, use a credit card, and buy the 90 day supply of generic imatinib for $848.  Personally, I fail to see why Novartis raised the price from $90 per pill when I began taking it in 2005 to $200 or more per pill today.  It isn't illegal, but it is certainly unethical.  Maybe you will have the same luck I have.  I'm pretty happy with less than $10 per pill.

[LivingWellWithCML]

Yup, the price is definitely going up - perhaps in anticipation of the patent expiration in the US (?).  My latest insurance bill just increased from $6,475 to over $7,000 for a 30-day supply of 400mg tablets.