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Medicare question: Traditional or Advantage approach better for MPNers
Blood Cancers & Disorders | Last Active: Dec 8, 2022 | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
Hi Eileen, Interested in your choice, as I just threw in my hat to Traditional Medicare, with G and D supplements. I saw the Silver Script Aetna listed at something like $1.61 /month premium compared to the AARP Walgreens United HC premium of $29 in my area. I took the Walgreens one, although I could not actually see the disadvantage of Silver Script in the price of drugs I MAY be (still no idea!) taking this next year. (I took the kind suggestions of forum folks and put in both the lowly HU and the exorbitant Pegasys.) I could not get my Medicare advisor to explain that discrepancy in premiums. Unless it is a privacy issue, can you say how Aetna's Silver Script let you down? I'm guessing your husband's meds were just not on the Aetna plan, or was it more a problem with the overall program?
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One good thing about HU is it is very inexpensive. I am just starting to order from my online pharmacy,
I just saw my hematologist. She is letting me go another month taking 500 mg HU every other day. My platelets were 498 two weeks before seeing her (six month labs ordered by primary). I am really hoping I can continue every other day as I feel much better than taking every day. Maybe my body is adjusting to it?
Eileen
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My husband has to go through Alight because he has retiree benefits from AT&T. He has had Silver Script for several years and no problems with it. He does 90 day mail orders for four prescriptions. He has one expensive prescription…Farxiga. He can also pick up prescriptions at CVS, etc.
For 2023 the only silver Script plan available to him is going up from $32 to $39. The Walgreen AARP plan is $32. If he gets his drugs from Silver Script cost would be $2300 for 2023 including the plan. Walgreen AARP would total $1700 including the plan.
We live in a northern suburb of Philadelphia, PA. The lower cost Silver Script is not available to him. Drug plans seem to charge different rates in different areas.
If you can get such a low cost Silver Script plan I would probably go with it if it covers your current drugs. You can always change for 2024. Congrats on your decisions.
Eileen