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While I was waiting for the insurance company to approve my Actemra injections, I did some research into alternative sources of paying for it. I was surprised to find quite a bit of financial assistance for people with GCA to pay for Actemra, depending on your income. There is financial assistance if you don't have insurance, and there is also co-pay assistance if you do. I assume the same would be true for Kevzara.
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When the drug company called me to say my out of pocket yearly cost would be $16,000 they told me that there were programs that could help. I asked the woman to describe what was available and not one program would be of assistance to me. It felt like they were going through the motions of appearing to be helpful. Most were government programs with an upper limit of 2-3 times the poverty level, approx $26,000 to $39,000 for a single person. I'm not much above that, so $16,000 a year is not reasonable.