A representative from My Humira Financial Assistance contacted me last Friday. She wondered why David hadn’t started taking Humira since they’d issued his discount card for $500 off a month for 12 months. My first thought was, “Well, now we know why Humira retails for $2,200 a month. They have employees who sit around keeping tabs on us.”
The My Humira rep re-verified our health insurance benefits after I explained that with the $500 discount card, we’d still have to pay $1,000 a month, and we can’t afford that. A few days later, she contacted me and explained that we make too much money for their financial assistance program, but they might be able to make an exception if we have enough medical expenses. They think they can get David the Humira for free since our insurance doesn’t cover it.
Today I contacted our pharmacy and all of our doctors and asked them to send me all of our bills for 2009. The good news is, My Humira considers all household medical expenses, so the thousands of dollars we spent earlier this year replacing my night guard will be part of our total expenses. Our insurance premiums count, too. They didn’t tell us what the magic number is, whether it’s a precentage of our income, or a dollar amount. We’ll just have to include every single thing, and pray that it’s enough.
I’m trying not to get my hopes up. We’ll see what happens. Thanks for your prayers.
Praying here!
Oh, Ashley that would be AWESOME! Saying a prayer that it’s enough! I can’t imagine the freedom that would give David…to help alleviate some of that pain! Let us know!