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Other news....................I saw a post on a Facebook diabetes group about a new non-profit called Cheap Insulin Foundation. The man running it sent me an email and is trying to build this foundation and get the word out about how people can get cheap insulin, either from foreign countries or by using a back door system through our own government in the U.S. called the 340b program. Here is information copied from the website.
No Income Limits, No Applications
The 340b Drug Discount Program was created by a federal law in 1990. Drug companies that want to sell drugs to Medicaid also must sell the same drugs at steep discounts to community health centers, certain other clinics, and many hospitals — and their patients.
As a result, simply by seeing a medical provider at a community health center, anyone is automatically eligible to buy insulin and other drugs at incredibly low 340b prices — forever (just see the provider about once a year to maintain a patient relationship).
You don’t need to give up your current doctor, and there are no applications or income limits.
Especially for insulin, the 340b prices are extremely low. For example, the same 10 ml vial of Humalog that normally sells for about $350 costs just $2 to $25 through the 340b program.
Therefore, establishing a relationship with a community health center provider now is an excellent way to provide you or your child with cheap insulin (and a great safety net) for the rest of your/his/her life.
Eligibility
In general, anybody who sees a doctor (or other medical provider) at a community health center at least once, and at least about once a year after that, is eligible.
Patients can still see other doctors of course, including another primary care doctor, and specialists anywhere else. In fact, all prescriptions written by another doctor who has been referred to by the health center doctor are eligible for the 340b discounts.
However, the discounts are only available when the prescriptions are filled at the health center’s own pharmacy or an outside pharmacy that it contracts with.