Expenses (US) for coumadin/warfarin... what should I expect?

[Protimenow]

Superman -- if your cardiologist won't prescribe warfarin, perhaps your primary care physician will do it.

You don't have a track record for having self-tested, so you can't show a spreadsheet with all your tests and dosage changes - but if you convince this doctor that you're fully able to self-test and, at some time, start to manage your dosage, it may be easier to get the prescription for warfarin.

FWIW - I didn't have to produce a spreadsheet to convince my primary physician to prescribe warfarin. Perhaps you might be as fortunate.

 

[Protimenow]

is this treatable? Like surgically or with drugs ?

;-)

I was going to give another answer about treating stupidity, but Angie would probably delete it.

 

[pellicle]

FWIW - I didn't have to produce a spreadsheet to convince my primary physician to prescribe warfarin. Perhaps you might be as fortunate.

curiously I never thought of not having one ... at least a small book with the records

 

[pellicle]

Of course, MTV could be playing something older. Guessing it’s an old expression going back to the beginning of lobotomy

that link I provided went into those details, second paragraph.

anyway hope you're doing well (your reports indicate you are)

 

[Protimenow]

FWIW - it may have been Dr. Demento.

I remember listening to him on Sunday nights on the FM station KMET. This was long before he apparently broadened his listener base. For some time, he was a well kept secret.

 

[Superman]

Weird Al Yankovic got his start on the Dr Demento radio program. I think.

Doing very well, pellicle. Just “busier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs” lately. - unsourced because I don’t recall and don’t feel like looking it up.

 

[Superman]

Fantastic links. I was finally able to click on them. I maintain Tom Waits is cooler to quote than Dorothy Parker, but I concede the source.

 

[Superman]

Superman -- if your cardiologist won't prescribe warfarin, perhaps your primary care physician will do it.

You don't have a track record for having self-tested, so you can't show a spreadsheet with all your tests and dosage changes - but if you convince this doctor that you're fully able to self-test and, at some time, start to manage your dosage, it may be easier to get the prescription for warfarin.

FWIW - I didn't have to produce a spreadsheet to convince my primary physician to prescribe warfarin. Perhaps you might be as fortunate.

For me, right now, I’m more concerned with my own out of pocket than I am with the profitability of my insurance company. $12 / month is cheaper than a machine plus $5 per test strip. 5 kids to feed and all that.

 

[pellicle]

5 kids to feed and all that.

all the pragmatic reasons ;-)

and as you're paying for insurance anyway ... let them deal with it I'd (also) say

 

[pellicle]

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker is pretty cool

 

[pellicle]

FWIW - it may have been Dr. Demento.

also featured on Dr Demento


iirc

Meanwhile @Homeskillet should get dose of this (for state of mind)

 

[Protimenow]

Superman -- $32 a month is a lot different from the $350/month that you wrote earlier. It may even be less expensive than a monthly blood draw.

 

[Superman]

Superman -- $32 a month is a lot different from the $350/month that you wrote earlier. It may even be less expensive than a monthly blood draw.

Sorry for the confusion. The $350 came from Tom in MO. That was his cost before deductible was met. Once he meets the deductible, I gather his out of pocket goes way down.
We were both responding to/about that cost and why so high. I said my cost was $12 a month in my original post in this thread.

 

[Protimenow]

Actually, I went back to the earlier messages, and saw that Tom was the first to mention the $350. I also saw a post from you that mentioned it. Perhaps you were quoting Tom.