Why yes it is.
“This is Jessica with The
Assistance Fund and I am trying to find out if you knew why we haven’t been
billed for your co-pay of your Copaxone since September of 2014?”
I said, “oh no!
Does that mean I owe all that
money? (I did quick math in my head and came up with $1050!)
But wait someone has to have
been paying since my bills have been zeroed out.”
Not verbatim but pretty
close.
So Jessica asked me who my
provider of my Copaxone is, the pharmacy that is.
I told her CVS, and so she
called, but apparently she did not realize that it was CVS Specialty division
due to it being an injectable and so after a confusing conversation with a
person asking me numbers that I had none of, she surmised with my insistence
that I did not need any of the numbers she asked me for to order my medication and
that we meant to speak with the CVS SPECIALTY division of their
company, whoa!
Talk about a Gracie Allen
moment; oh wait more info for those under sixty about a delightfully funny woman: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gracie_Allen
So we figured out by the
billing department finally getting in on this three way, oh stop, three way
phone conversation that Shared Solutions part of TEVA the
manufacturer/pharmaceutical company that makes Copaxone had been paying since
October, TEVA that is, thank you very much… but why and how come?
I had met the criteria to
continue with the Assistance Fund and the woman Jessica said that when I go on
to Medicare they will pick it up again since TEVA will not.
Okay, but the fact that I had
no idea that this was going on was a wee bit unsettling.
So I called Shared Solutions
and asked to speak to anyone who might know what had happened and an Aussie
fellow named Wayne who happened to be in Indiana, yep, he told me that when I had called on October 6th
of last year that I had authorized the change…I did not remember, and this was
again quite unsettling,…so I was put through to their billing/Medicare department and Chastity
there said that she could help me with Part D, which is the $20.60 a month
Silver Script plan that will cover my seven prescriptions including the
Copaxone, except the co-pays. I said that I thought that Colonial Penn was
doing that, but I wasn’t sure.
So next I put a call into Alison
our rep with Colonial Penn and she wasn’t available but I spoke with her
partner Jane and Jane reassured me they take care of that too.
So I called back Chastity,
and thanked her and told her what I had been told by Jane.
She said that if the
Assistance Fund runs out of money being a non-profit and all to call her back
and she could find me someone else to pay the co-pay for me, which by then will
be four times as much. I thanked her again, but also told her that Jessica left
me with the feeling/impression that it would not be a problem for them and that all I had to
do was call them and they would be there to pay my co-pay.
So many good nice helpful
people, how wonderful is that, hmm?
On that more pleasant note,
allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and
ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with
you know whom and we will too!
And next time please be here or
be square, ya hear!