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Saline Solution Vital to Health: Medicare Negates
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Feb 11 7:15pm | Replies (15)Comment receiving replies
@sueinmn Are you thinking there is a shortage is why I was given a $60.00 price?
Help.....Do I understand fully ....the saline which is to flush the IV PICC lines is the same saline we need for nebulizing for our BE.... which means the doctor needs to order it in 4ml 7% (the saline used for the flush PICC line) to use for a patients BE treatment.?? I can't imagine that it isn't the same?????
Does that saline for flushing the IV PICC lines come stating Hypertonic or Sodium Chloride saline? From what little I know I have a feeling it comes in a box saying Hypertonic Saline Solution???
Thanks, Sue
Barbara
P.S. I just happen to go to SPAM, which I rarely do, and found your answer there....Lesson learned...open spam each day.
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I can get the saline at Walgreens for 10 dollars using GoodRx coupon.
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@blm1007blm1007 No, I don't think there is a shortage, although there was a temporary one a few years ago. I think $60 is the retail price. It sounds like either your insurance or Medicare quit covering the saline, so you are being charged the full price now.
PICC lines are flushed with normal saline (0.9%), not hypertonic (7%) - and when my friend needed it, it was supplied in pre-loaded syringes, not the vials like we use.
Saline in 4-5 ml vials is sometimes used to mix with and dilute meds for nebulizing, but that is usually normal saline as well.