Symbicort..

[moriah]

13. Right now the asthma fund on Healthwell is open, if you're paying attention to DU lately....

https://www.healthwellfoundation.org/fund/asthma/

They either offer a premium assistance fund to get your premiums down to something you can afford, or they offer a copay assistance fund. I got approved for copay assistance within 2 hours today.

I have Medicare Part D and my asthma inhaler copays are too expensive, so these type of funds have helped me greatly. PAN Foundation and Copays.org also have Asthma funds, and I've used PAN's Asthma fund in the past. PAN only reimburses if the med copay is $50 or more, but getting them every 3 months makes the copay that until I hit gap (and one I hit gap, the copays are well over $50). I saw Healthwell's minimum reimbursement at the pharmacy is $5, so that makes me happy -- means since my Medicare supplemental plan stopped covering Ventolin but 3 months of Proair is less than $50, it will still cover my rescue inhalers too.

They do require you have insurance, but it makes using your insurance for the medications MUCH easier. I can't afford even 25% of what either Advair OR Symbicort, along with any of the varieties of anticholinergic inahlers (either Pressair or Sprivia), cost, and that's what they consider "completely filling the coverage gap".