Glenda's journey with prescribed treatments

[Kat]

I went to see my Rheumatologist June 20 and asked about Taltz he said he had heard about it and it's 6 months on the Market in the USA but he heard it helps psoriasis more than the Psoriatic Arthritis and being I am dong so good on Embrel he would hate to change things now unless it stops helping me.I agreed with him I have my $3000 deductible in so I will let you know what I pay next month.I paid $862 for June and they said I have reached my deductible so I will see. I have Medicare which they take out $105 a month from everyone that is 65 and retired I have a supplement I pay $36.50 a month and have Champ Va that pays 20% Medicare pays 80% but not medication.

Since you're doing so well on Embrel, I wouldn't change either.  

Our insurance here is quite difficult to understand for others I'd imagine (it's hard enough to understand when you're used to it!)  It will be interesting to see how much you'll have to pay now that you've met the deductibles.  Medicare part B deductible is $166.00 so is the $3000 deductible another insurance?  Asking because I'm curious as to how much Medicare will cover on the Embrel or if another insurance is involved.

Editing this to add the following.

Medicare prescription coverage is under part D? The deductible for it is higher, around $300? After I posted it occurred to me that prescriptions aren't under Medicare part B. Thanks in advance for clearing any of this up for me Glenda... Medicare is still a big confusing to me.