Nuvigil/insurance payment problems/Bennie

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*In the meantime, call the manufacturer for the pharmacy assistance program for

patients and talk to a specific person to assist you for free medications until

you can get this resolved. Bennie

Hi Bennie, Thank you! We've done most of that, but there was a few things you

suggested, that I will give a try (once more, and try the terminology changes!)

and call a few extra places too.

I had three sleep studies, and survey, and multiple doctors all with same Dx. as

the outcome. I have been trying to get RX. filled through CVS, was who filled it

previously, but I also have access to Medco.

I have two insurances for prescriptions, and right now they are both saying,

" no " and the doctors office has spent way to much time on it, for me to ask them

again. That's why he wrote me the letter, and ask me to try and hound them into

filling it again.

The whole reason for going back on Nuvigil was that is was less expensive than

the Provigil, (what the Insurance company asked us to do, less expensive) and

thank goodness for that generic next year!

Thank you for that information too!

I have the savings card for the Nuvigil, but in the past how CVS. was filling

it, they billed both insurance companies, and brought my costs down to just a

few dollars. (They are doing that with my pain medications too, and saving me

hundreds of dollars a year!) I had no idea that you could carry two insurance

companies, and keep using a savings card, its been a life saver with all the

other expenses going up in the economy now days.

I wish I knew that years ago, it's well worth paying two premiums to have that

much savings!

I did print the help/assistance forms from the link (I think you posted? Someone

did a few days ago) and I will start faxing them my letter along with forms, and

since I am taking it for what it was intended for, Narcolepsy, hopefully that

will be an advantage.

I do have CFS, and Chronic Hypersomnolence [People suffering from

hypersomnolence sleep an excessive amount of time at night, take long naps

during the day, & generally feel drowsy & distracted when awake. This serious

neurological sleep disorder that can be permanent] along with the narcolepsy,

and CPS, and effects from the medications on top of that, this medicine turned

out to be a life-line for me! I had been tired all day and night, and could fall

asleep anytime and anywhere, and even while driving, without it, I may not be

able to drive.

Sometimes a medicine is needed as much as water is needed, in my case, I won't

be awake long enough to accomplish anything, I'd could be the poster child for

Nuvigil/Provigil medication, to show how well it really works!

Thank you for your ideas, and I will start asap, with calls, faxes, and letters.

So grateful and appreciative.