On 4/18/2005 Drmort wrote:
My wife will be starting on Tarceva. Medicare doesn't seem to pay for it as it had for her previous chemo drugs. Has anyone had experience with getting Tarceva at a reduced cost?
My own experience was that Medicare doesn't cover Tarceva, but my Secure Horizons insurance covered 2/3 of the cost. So, at our pharmacy, a month's supply of 30 150 mg. tablets cost $3,962 and I paid $1,687. However, if you contact Genentech, maker of Tarceva, they may put you in touch with a charity that will help defray the cost. Check out Genentech's website, as well as Tarceva's. Call Genentech's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) at 888-249-4918 or, alternatively, call the SPOC's Alternate Funding Specialist, Bert Darrell, at (800) 240-1224.