Priced Out to Covered: Prescription Savings Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe the cost of prescription medicine and the work of getting it paid for. Writers describe the number at the counter — the insulin, the inhaler, the biologic, the cancer drug, the epilepsy medication — and the calculations that followed, including the rationing people did quietly and the consequences. There is learning the machinery: formularies and tiers, prior authorisation, step therapy, appeals and the letters that won them, and the specific exhaustion of doing administrative work while ill. Writers describe cards, coupons and cash prices, the pharmacies that quoted wildly different figures, manufacturer assistance programmes and the paperwork they demand, and charitable foundations. Later chapters cover borders and other systems, pharmacists who advocated from behind the counter, and the cases where nothing brought the price down.

Who it's for

For anyone facing an unaffordable prescription, patients preparing an insurance appeal, caregivers managing someone else's medication costs, and pharmacists and prescribers.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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