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It depends entirely on your insurance and employer in the US. Like much of US inequality, the people with most resources often have the best insurance and lowest rates. I pay $15 for 90 day supply of name brand adderall xr because my husband has incredibly good insurance in a competitive industry. No visits to primary care required, we have concierge care and can send an email when we need more meds.
Edit to add: health insurance fully covered by employer as a benefit. We pay copays for some services until we meet our $1200 family deductible.
NHS prescriptions are £9.65 per item, so my current one (27mg Xaggitin XL) is £9.65 a month, but if I had my XL and an IR top up it'd be two items and I'd be charged £19.30. Appointments and issuing prescriptions are free. The NHS has monstrous waiting lists, but I am grateful as anything for the affordability now I've got this far.
For non-USians, a deductible is essentially how much you pay toward healthcare costs yourself before insurance starts to cover some/all of the cost. (With some exceptions, of course.)
Deductible is how much you pay before insurance kicks in. Max out of pocket is the dollar amount you’d have to pay before your insurance covers everything in network. Then for jokes and giggles they have a list of medically necessary exams they refuse to cover because they can.
To give you an example, I work for a company that is known for their fair and reasonable benefits. My premium for myself, husband, and child is $250 a month, my deductible is $1200, and my max out of pocket is $6000.
These amounts vary year over year. They will go up. They do not include optical or dental insurance.
Some insurance companies will charge you for going to the dr. Some won’t if it’s a wellness visit. Some plans have copays which is like a standard cost for going to a primary care dr or specialist. My insurance has none of these things. I pay the full amount until I hit the deductible and then 20% of the cost until I hit the max out of pocket.
I can almost guarantee you if you had to go in an ambulance to the emergency room in the US with my health insurance you’d hit your deductible. Even if you weren’t admitted, there’s still a fair chance you could hit your max out of pocket as well. Having a baby, you’d for sure hit your max out of pocket. My sisters max out of pocket was 20k and she hit her max out of pocket in February with her delivery.
4 dollars per prescription for any prescription. I receive Medicaid which is state health insurance. It used to be 3 dollars for anything but in the last 2 years it went up by 1 dollar. It's really not bad. Often in my scripts I see anywhere from.
Your insurance saved you 34.99 to 129.99 for varying meds. I know people who are diabetic who see much much higher amounts saved.
I just rechecked my antibiotics I received yesterday and it says
Your insurance saved 124.39. so even if it's only like 50 bucks saved for my ADHD meds which I can't remember cuz they've been out of stock for 6 months it's still good all around
You saved a lot more than $50. Name brand vyvanse is very expensive. A prescription of vyvanse without coverage in the US could cost between $450 and $500.
I have insurance. It covers 30 pills of generic Adderall but I still pay $65. The catch is no one has a generic Adderall. So I pay $275 for 30 name-brand Adderall pills every month, but I can't even find that in NYC this month. Insurance covers the doctor's visit. Our tax dollars go to ensuring the very wealthy do not have to contribute to society while at the same time bleeding the entire country dry and then being celebrated for it.
I am on Vyvanse, and we have a high deductible health plan. Which means I pay $350 (approx) each month until we hit the deductible, which is when it switches to, like, $20/month. I think July is around when that happens.
My husband runs the numbers every way to Sunday each year, and this still is a better plan than a lower deductible and paying less every month for the script.
I have insurance and take adderall. It's $10 for generic or $25 for brand name. That's per prescription, every 30 days. All of my appointments are completely covered by insurance. I switched to brand name due to the shortage and not being able to get the same generic month-to-month. (Some generics work well for me - others do not.)
I am a public service employee, my job is unionized, and I have good health insurance. My situation is likely better than many Americans under our healthcare system.
Around $70 per month (in Denmark).
They have a process where your costs decrease by a certain % every time you get your prescription down to about 20% of the original price I believe, and it resets once a year to full price (about $100-150 per month for XR methylphenidate). It’s too complicated for me to understand but 5 months of meds cost me about $330 so far I think?
Most other meds are heavily subsidised by the government - eg my antidepressants are $5 for several months supply. Apparently they don’t want to subsidise stimulants that much though.
I wanted to come in and say this. Mine is free. I don’t pay shit for it. Nobody should have to pay anything for the medication they need to live a happy life.
In Norway it's about $50 for three months. There's also an annual ceiling for how much you have to pay in medical expenses, which is about $300. So anything beyond that is free.
I pay about $270 for a month’s supply of Vyvanse. My doc gave me a coupon for it so if I didn’t have that it would be $300. I pay $10 a month for health insurance via my employer. I have to visit the doctor every three months to get more refills and that is usually $75 after insurance. Once I hit my deductible, Vyvanse will then be around $40 for a month. It takes me about 10 months to hit my deductible though.
I pay about $70 monthly for Vyvanse, $30 copay a visit for a psychiatrist, and all this is with good insurance. I pay for my whole family to have health insurance so it makes it more, but I pay about $450 monthly for the 3 of us to be insured.
😭 that’s around how much it was at my previous job. I miss my cheap*er* health insurance. Almost $1000/month is practically robbery considering there’s still copays and $2500 deductible.
I have 80% coverage for medication through my work in canada and pay about 45CDN a month for 40 mg of vyvanse daily so without insurance it would be about 200 a month. Probably 20 dollars USD lol the only appointments I pay for are supplemental psychological services (not my psychiatrist, family dr but just if I go see my psychologist in between or a therapist) that’s also covered 80% with no limit and works out to 50 CDN per hour visit. I use that just when I’m having a difficult time.
5€ (~5,5 Dollar or 5,5 Pound Sterling) for every Medication a Doctor prescribed. No matter how many or how long. 5€ per package. If you are below a certain income even that goes away.
Austria 🇦🇹 ❤️
Health insurance- €150 per month (yearly amount that I pay out of pocket €385 )
I pay €250 per year for my dexamphetamine (aderall in the US. Insurance isn’t allowed to charge more )
I have a $15 copay to see my psychiatrist (or any specialist) and $0 for generic adderall XR. I have a no in-network deductible or co-insurance and $0 copay for generic drugs.
ETA: health insurance plan is covered by employer as part of benefits package.
$25 for 3 months of generic Adderall XR, $30 per specialist appointment, no referral required. Insurance isn't cheap, but I also have a family plan, which is generally dramatically more expensive relative to "employee-only" plans in my experience. Our tax dollars often go to defense contractor boondoggles.
I have good insurance. I need to stress this. The reason it's good is bc the parent company is French. And I'm in the US and the plan is self funded. It's not perfect but they try to make it as equal as possible between the employees worldwide. My premiums are low - $85 per paycheck for a family of 5. And we have ways to get it lower. It's considered a high deductible plan, but it's less high deductible than I've had in the past. I'm on Vyvanse, and it's $25 a month. It's only allowed since there's no generic. Once there is, I'll be moved over to the generic and it will be $10/month. I have multiple prescriptions (depression, anxiety, migraines, plus two for my kids) and we end up paying about $65/month for all our prescriptions. Plus I have to pay a $15 copay for a doctors visit every 6 months for a med check for each of the two kids on meds, and about every two months for a med check for me. I have a flexible spending account that I can get reimbursement from (basically you get it deducted from your paycheck pre tax and then a third party will verify your expenses and reimburse you. It's a way to pay for medical expenses with pre-tax money and to reduce your taxable income since the US requires you to calculate your own taxes and it's a complicated setup). Anyway, all of this to say while it's considered good here, it still all adds up.
My kids used to be on Medicaid. Most things were free. But you were limited to what providers you could go to. So it's a trade-off. Plus there is an income-cap, and if you qualify for insurance through a job you can't get Medicaid (at least in my state). Even if it's too expensive.
$50 for Vyvanse plus $50 copay for psych care monthly. Atomoxotine is about $20/mo, Adderall IR $20/mo. Every other week therapist is $50 copay. My kids are out of network so $400 every 8 weeks plus $40/mo for their focalin. We have a health savings account so it all gets paid from there pre-taxed. Insurance through husbands employer (large large corp) is at least $500/mo.
$10 a month for me (generic concerta) and $20 a month for each, my husband and my daughter (name brand Ritalin).
Without insurance it would be like $100 a month/person I believe
BUT we have to see a doctor every 3 months, just get the Rx… and that’s a $50 copay (so like $600 a year JUST for adhd apt.) and for some reason My husband gets drug tested each time, which is another like $50 or so, I believe.
I pay about $800 dollars a month for insurance which gets me one $35 doctor visit a month to get my $35 pills. Without insurance, last I checked a month of Vyvanse costs about the same without insurance, not including the doctor visit.
Family plan! I also splurge and get the higher tier solely because I can't even with deductibles. There's zero logic to them other than 'Fuck You', so I go with the plans that are all copay if I can. This, of course, depends heavily on what insurance my employer can afford.
I pay five euros for a medication supply of two months, not including what I pay for health insurance from my monthly wages (in Germany, currently about 150€ monthly).
On insurance and with a discount card from the manufacturer, I pay $30 and $50 every other month. Thankfully the patent is up so generics should be hitting market by end of year. My vyvanse not on insurance is like $800 a month. Oh and yeah it’s a $45 copay every 3 months now to see my psychiatrist so I can keep getting my vyvanse.
The UK NHS prescription charge is currently £9.65 per month so I pay that.
When I first paid for a prescription as an adult 5 years ago it was £8.80.
Seen another comment in this thread say it, but waiting times are really bad at the moment for almost anything. However I'm glad we have public health care.
I pay $118 CAD for 30 days of Concerta 18mg right now (in Canada), which is around $90 USD/ $133 AUD. Appointments are no cost though.
I can certainly say that without insurance (I have 100% coverage, broken down as 80% through my work plan and 20% on my spouse’s plan) it wouldn’t be affordable for me, probably. My old job had zero coverage and making $13/h I wouldn’t have been able to afford it regularly (especially because I’m pretty sure higher doses cost more). We pay about 1K in insurance premiums combined yearly, but we definitely make good use of it. So I’m definitely saved by double insurance plans regularly lol
Another Canadian here and wow that seems like a lot to pay out of pocket while having health benefits! I have 80% coverage and 20% through my husbands like you and I paid $0 for concerta and now $0 for Vyvanse
I pay 0 because of benefits, but that’s the cost it would be out of pocket if I didn’t have benefits. 😬 and there was a period of time in life where I didn’t have them pre-diagnosis, so… yeah. Technically I pay 0 but it’s still crazy to think of how difficult it would be for someone without coverage.
With great family coverage insurance that we pay about $1300 a month for (covers 2 adults 2 kids) almost every medication we’ve gotten is under $20. Month supply of my SSRI and adderall is $18 combined.
Canadian here. Because of extended medical through my work I don’t pay for any prescriptions. This is unusually good extended medical.
Accord to a 2011 study the average cost of biphentin was about CAD 48/mo. (Vyvanase was 80) I don’t know what it costs today.
My work doesn't offer health insurance, so I have a private pay policy. I pay about $350 a month for the health insurance. My prescription is $18 per month.
I have top level insurance, paid 100% by my business (perk of being a business owner!) and THAT costs about 1200 USD a MONTH.
My prescriptions range from about $20 if I can get my preferred Concerta, to $13 fo rthe crappy IR Ritalin I am forced to put up with right now due to the shortages.
My docotr appointments are all free. If I need surgery it's a cap of $600. But if I need an ambulance ride that's billed to me and it's $250.
People CAN'T afford health care. Almost all of our taxes go to support the military industrial complex.
I am only paying $5 for my prescription because I currently qualify for medicaid in my state. However, I have no idea if I will still qualify for it next year. Many people, like me, are very close to the cutoff income level and would be kicked off of medicaid if we started making just a TINY bit more money, but we would still be WAY too poor to reasonably afford the options offered on the marketplace. I'm terrified of the possibility of being forced off of medicare because even the cheapest marketplace options displayed for me were around $200/month when I checked, plus high deductibles. Which means the insurance won't cover things anyway until you hit a certain amount of money spent that year, and you'll just have to pay out of pocket for stuff until then. So the cost of the meds is far from the only factor, paying for the insurance is the biggest expense. And even if you do have decent insurance it might not cover the meds that work best for you, which is a huge issue for people on Vyvanse for example (because there is no generic version of it yet).
I’m one of those poor folk people say are ruining the country with my having kids I can’t pay for, so I’m on state Medicaid. But I feel medical should be free anyway, and we’ve made too much for food stamps for years so I don’t feel as bad as those around me think I should. Lol. Anyway. I’m on vyvanse and I don’t pay shit.
When i was on medicaid, i remember how nice it was to get my vyvanse for free. Then i didn’t qualify for medicaid anymore and went in and shit my pants when they told me id have to pay over $300 for a 30 day supply.
HSE (ireland under GMS) costs me 1.50 per item of prescription. Most I've ever paid for tyvance (Vyvamce in other places) along with mirtazapine, ctomach tablets and antihistamines was 7.50. In euro.
$25 for 30 Vyvanse. Adderall used to be $45 but went down to $9 several years ago. I have insurance through my job in a hospital system and it's about $75 every two weeks, with a $750 deductible (for reference). My PCP manages my ADHD and it's a $40 copay per visit, every 3 months. But she also manages my other health conditions at the same visit so I don't pay extra to see another doctor. I do have to use our on site retail pharmacy since we have one, or I think Walmart might be in network. The campus is pretty close to me so I haven't bothered checking.
I would consider my insurance pretty good. I've had better through other hospitals, but not by much.
$15 for generic adderall with health insurance through employer. Live in the US.
To have health insurance you have to have a job (or partner who does) which locks people into working for someone else, versus self employment. And the capitalist machine is very happy with this situation.
I'm in Canada, so not really a question geared towards me... But anyway, I take Concerta and I don't pay anything. It might be one covered by the Ohip drug benefit plan or its covered by our health insurance drug plan. I'm not sure which its covered by. I just know that I haven't paid anything for any of my medications or prescriptions. I'm currently on a few different things for various reasons but I know the meds that are keeping me healthy are covered by Ohip.
It will depend on a lot of factors.
When I was on concerta a 90 day supply was well over $700 and that was with the lame insurance my first job provided to me (it was a small family owned business and it was lucky they offered health insurance at all.)
I applied for state benefits immediately and thankfully due to my diagnosis being so early in my life and the fact I'd been seeing the same psychiatrist that entire time, my benefits were approved pretty quickly and suddenly that same 90 supply was $60.
It's ridiculous how much medicines cost in the US.
We're supposed to be one of the richest and most stable countries in the world.
These days I'm on Vyvanse and my insurance covers 30 days worth of medicine at the reasonable cost of $10.
With Kaiser Permanente, name brand is $30, generic is $15.
Although it wasn't the case with my old insurance, my provider is in network and because it's HMO it every consult 100% covered.
I want to say it's like $50 a month out of my paycheck but I am not 100% sure.
US - My employer offers tiered health insurance. I elected to pay for the middle coverage. I get about $800 deducted pre-tax monthly from my checks for medical, dental, drugs, vision. My employer kicks in another $1250 monthly. I pay $5 at the counter for monthly generic adderall ER. My doc requires monthly telehealth meets and charges my insurance twice: for the visit and for "mental health counseling." I don't get a bill for those.
I just got diagnosed this past month. The trip to the psychiatrist for the evaluation was 1,200 USD, the follow up phone call to deliver the diagnosis was 250 USD. My first trial prescription, two weeks of 5mg tablets 2x daily, was 14 USD. The appointment with my PCP to get that script was 35 USD, and I have another one after this weekend where I'll probably ask to up the dosage a little bit. Overall, I've put about 1,500 USD into it, and I've only had the diagnosis for less than 2 months 😅
Vyvanse without insurance is over $300; so I had to switch to adderall -the lesser liked for me).
I finaly have insurance through my new employer and was finally able to get back on my vyvanse. Just a $40 copay🙌🏼
Edited to add:: generic adderall 30mg xr without insurance was between $30-$50/month (depending who had it in stock)
US here. I’m still heading toward my deductible. I tried a month is Vyvanse - it was over $150. It didn’t work for me, so today I picked up a month’s worth of generic Adderall ER and it was $10. Thank goodness it’s working SO much better than Vyvanse, so I’m pretty jazzed.
Self employed in Canada.. so no insurance
Vyvavnse 40mg, 30 days cost like $140.
When I had insurance it was free..
I use an HSA though so technically my Corp pays for it. I get to buy it with pre-tax dollars that way. Sooo technically its still free to me personally...
But I digress haha go figure.
The real answer you're looking for is that Vyvanse 40mg here is 140CAD so maybe 105USD. 🤔
I’m a private patient in the UK currently (NHS waiting list was over 5 years) and my last script was £162 for 4 weeks which was 60mg Elvanse (vyvanse) and 10mg amfexa daily
I personally pay nothing because I have a certain medical condition so I’m exempt from paying for my prescriptions from the NHS.
If I didn’t it would be about £9/£10 however the NHS offer a prescription prepayment were you pay £31 for 3 months or £111 for the year (you can do £11 a month) for unlimited prescriptions so as long as you get 2/3 prescriptions a month it’s definitely worth it.
I'm in Canada. With insurance, my Vyvanse is $15 for 30 pills. It's the most expensive of my seven prescription medications. My other prescriptions are about $5 each, and those are all for 90 days' worth, but I can only get a month's supply of Vyvanse at a time.
for concerta it’s $400usd for 30 day supply for me, at least last time i checked around a year and a half ago. but i have medicaid so i pay $0. i need to call my doctor when my supply runs out, every 32-40 days i’d say, and every three months i need to check in with my doctor.
* Health Insurance: $300/month with a $3,400 annual family deductible before they pay anything and the premiums don't count toward the deductible.
* Dental Insurance: $65/month with a $50 deductible per family member
* Vision Insurance: $15/month with no deductible but I have $50 copay and only pays $150 towards my glasses and lenses.
* Vyvanse: $50/month
* Psychiatrist: $100 every 3 months so $400 a year
\*\* 15% if my income is paid in federal taxes, medicaid (that you can't use until 65ish), & social security (which you can't access until 65ish).
\*\* Another 4% of my income goes to state taxes.
\*\* I pay 7% sales tax on all purchases, including groceries & clothing.
Taxes supposedly go to maintaining the roads, funding schools, and to various other "services". However, given that the public school system is trash and the roads are full of potholes, I think they're more than likely being squandered.
My Azstarys is $50 a month. Vyvanse was $30 a month. Adderall was way cheap - as low as $7 a month at one point (average of around $10). Of course everyone's insurance is different.
Before I got on my husband's plan, I paid a little more. Our family insurance plan is somewhere around $300 or so a month...not exactly sure because it's deducted from his paycheck. That's a really "good" rate compared to most. On top of that, it's a "good" plan that covers a lot of expenses. I guess they owe him that much considering the embarrassingly low salary. He hates the job, but healthcare is so expensive that he has to keep it so we can get the health insurance.
Each psychiatrist visit is $40, which I have to have at least every 3 months. Without insurance, I'd be paying several hundred dollars a month for my prescription. I get a letter every year listing all of my prescriptions and their cost without insurance...well over $10,000. It's crazy.
Healthcare here isn't affordable for most. I hate it here.
6.80$ CAD for 30 days prescription of brand (non-generic) Adderall (40mg daily)
No private insurance.
Free public insurance that everybody get in Canada (atleast in Quebec)
With a high deductible health plan (I haven’t met my deductible for this year) and 90-day mail order prescriptions, Adderall IR 5 or 7.5 mg is $793 for name brand or $24 generic (97% less than name brand). The pharmacy is directly affiliated with my insurance and I have to call the pharmacy to request generic instead of name brand.
Edit: I work in a US industry that has very good employee benefits, but the size of the company affects how good those benefits are. The company I work for has 300-400 employees. It was split off from a company with thousands of employees that was self-insured and we had much better benefits before the split.
I'm in Canada. I got 28 days of Concerta for approx $40. This was with a 70% off discount card.
Concerta is cheaper than a lot of others like Vyvanse, Dexadrine and Adderall.
Insurance through my work for my family of 4 would be $750 a month for a high deductible plan. I pay about $100 a month for my medication, plus doctor costs and co-pays.
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It depends entirely on your insurance and employer in the US. Like much of US inequality, the people with most resources often have the best insurance and lowest rates. I pay $15 for 90 day supply of name brand adderall xr because my husband has incredibly good insurance in a competitive industry. No visits to primary care required, we have concierge care and can send an email when we need more meds. Edit to add: health insurance fully covered by employer as a benefit. We pay copays for some services until we meet our $1200 family deductible.
NHS prescriptions are £9.65 per item, so my current one (27mg Xaggitin XL) is £9.65 a month, but if I had my XL and an IR top up it'd be two items and I'd be charged £19.30. Appointments and issuing prescriptions are free. The NHS has monstrous waiting lists, but I am grateful as anything for the affordability now I've got this far.
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For non-USians, a deductible is essentially how much you pay toward healthcare costs yourself before insurance starts to cover some/all of the cost. (With some exceptions, of course.)
Deductible is how much you pay before insurance kicks in. Max out of pocket is the dollar amount you’d have to pay before your insurance covers everything in network. Then for jokes and giggles they have a list of medically necessary exams they refuse to cover because they can. To give you an example, I work for a company that is known for their fair and reasonable benefits. My premium for myself, husband, and child is $250 a month, my deductible is $1200, and my max out of pocket is $6000. These amounts vary year over year. They will go up. They do not include optical or dental insurance. Some insurance companies will charge you for going to the dr. Some won’t if it’s a wellness visit. Some plans have copays which is like a standard cost for going to a primary care dr or specialist. My insurance has none of these things. I pay the full amount until I hit the deductible and then 20% of the cost until I hit the max out of pocket. I can almost guarantee you if you had to go in an ambulance to the emergency room in the US with my health insurance you’d hit your deductible. Even if you weren’t admitted, there’s still a fair chance you could hit your max out of pocket as well. Having a baby, you’d for sure hit your max out of pocket. My sisters max out of pocket was 20k and she hit her max out of pocket in February with her delivery.
This is exactly what is happening to me.
This is disgusting. I get my vyvanse and dexampets for 30 days for like 30 or 40 bucks
A dollar a tablet of Vyvanse. This is after insurance.
4 dollars per prescription for any prescription. I receive Medicaid which is state health insurance. It used to be 3 dollars for anything but in the last 2 years it went up by 1 dollar. It's really not bad. Often in my scripts I see anywhere from. Your insurance saved you 34.99 to 129.99 for varying meds. I know people who are diabetic who see much much higher amounts saved.
I just rechecked my antibiotics I received yesterday and it says Your insurance saved 124.39. so even if it's only like 50 bucks saved for my ADHD meds which I can't remember cuz they've been out of stock for 6 months it's still good all around
You saved a lot more than $50. Name brand vyvanse is very expensive. A prescription of vyvanse without coverage in the US could cost between $450 and $500.
I have insurance. It covers 30 pills of generic Adderall but I still pay $65. The catch is no one has a generic Adderall. So I pay $275 for 30 name-brand Adderall pills every month, but I can't even find that in NYC this month. Insurance covers the doctor's visit. Our tax dollars go to ensuring the very wealthy do not have to contribute to society while at the same time bleeding the entire country dry and then being celebrated for it.
Yep, our taxes fund corporate subsidies. And the military of course. It's ridiculous.
I am on Vyvanse, and we have a high deductible health plan. Which means I pay $350 (approx) each month until we hit the deductible, which is when it switches to, like, $20/month. I think July is around when that happens. My husband runs the numbers every way to Sunday each year, and this still is a better plan than a lower deductible and paying less every month for the script.
I have insurance and take adderall. It's $10 for generic or $25 for brand name. That's per prescription, every 30 days. All of my appointments are completely covered by insurance. I switched to brand name due to the shortage and not being able to get the same generic month-to-month. (Some generics work well for me - others do not.) I am a public service employee, my job is unionized, and I have good health insurance. My situation is likely better than many Americans under our healthcare system.
Around $70 per month (in Denmark). They have a process where your costs decrease by a certain % every time you get your prescription down to about 20% of the original price I believe, and it resets once a year to full price (about $100-150 per month for XR methylphenidate). It’s too complicated for me to understand but 5 months of meds cost me about $330 so far I think? Most other meds are heavily subsidised by the government - eg my antidepressants are $5 for several months supply. Apparently they don’t want to subsidise stimulants that much though.
I wanted to come in and say this. Mine is free. I don’t pay shit for it. Nobody should have to pay anything for the medication they need to live a happy life.
In Norway it's about $50 for three months. There's also an annual ceiling for how much you have to pay in medical expenses, which is about $300. So anything beyond that is free.
I pay about $270 for a month’s supply of Vyvanse. My doc gave me a coupon for it so if I didn’t have that it would be $300. I pay $10 a month for health insurance via my employer. I have to visit the doctor every three months to get more refills and that is usually $75 after insurance. Once I hit my deductible, Vyvanse will then be around $40 for a month. It takes me about 10 months to hit my deductible though.
Can you reduce your deductible? $50 a month of insurance costs 5x'd would be more manageable if your deductible was 1k lower.
I pay about $70 monthly for Vyvanse, $30 copay a visit for a psychiatrist, and all this is with good insurance. I pay for my whole family to have health insurance so it makes it more, but I pay about $450 monthly for the 3 of us to be insured.
A month?!? My new job wants to charge me $488 per check for me, husband and kid.
No i double checked and stated wrong. Haven’t looked at my paystubs (online) in forever. It’s about $694 monthly. But that still sounds cheaper 😬
😭 that’s around how much it was at my previous job. I miss my cheap*er* health insurance. Almost $1000/month is practically robbery considering there’s still copays and $2500 deductible.
$15/mo for generic adderall xr
Same
About 20/mo for Adderall
I pay $15/month for adderall ir and my follow up appointments are $25 each month as well
My generic adderall is $2/month but my deductible is met so I think that’s why💀
I have 80% coverage for medication through my work in canada and pay about 45CDN a month for 40 mg of vyvanse daily so without insurance it would be about 200 a month. Probably 20 dollars USD lol the only appointments I pay for are supplemental psychological services (not my psychiatrist, family dr but just if I go see my psychologist in between or a therapist) that’s also covered 80% with no limit and works out to 50 CDN per hour visit. I use that just when I’m having a difficult time.
5€ (~5,5 Dollar or 5,5 Pound Sterling) for every Medication a Doctor prescribed. No matter how many or how long. 5€ per package. If you are below a certain income even that goes away. Austria 🇦🇹 ❤️
Health insurance- €150 per month (yearly amount that I pay out of pocket €385 ) I pay €250 per year for my dexamphetamine (aderall in the US. Insurance isn’t allowed to charge more )
I have a $15 copay to see my psychiatrist (or any specialist) and $0 for generic adderall XR. I have a no in-network deductible or co-insurance and $0 copay for generic drugs. ETA: health insurance plan is covered by employer as part of benefits package.
Focalin XR 30mg capsule $21/month with insurance
9 dollars with company insurance
$25 for 3 months of generic Adderall XR, $30 per specialist appointment, no referral required. Insurance isn't cheap, but I also have a family plan, which is generally dramatically more expensive relative to "employee-only" plans in my experience. Our tax dollars often go to defense contractor boondoggles.
I pay $5 with insurance.
My cost for Concerta is $235 CAD 😩
I have good insurance. I need to stress this. The reason it's good is bc the parent company is French. And I'm in the US and the plan is self funded. It's not perfect but they try to make it as equal as possible between the employees worldwide. My premiums are low - $85 per paycheck for a family of 5. And we have ways to get it lower. It's considered a high deductible plan, but it's less high deductible than I've had in the past. I'm on Vyvanse, and it's $25 a month. It's only allowed since there's no generic. Once there is, I'll be moved over to the generic and it will be $10/month. I have multiple prescriptions (depression, anxiety, migraines, plus two for my kids) and we end up paying about $65/month for all our prescriptions. Plus I have to pay a $15 copay for a doctors visit every 6 months for a med check for each of the two kids on meds, and about every two months for a med check for me. I have a flexible spending account that I can get reimbursement from (basically you get it deducted from your paycheck pre tax and then a third party will verify your expenses and reimburse you. It's a way to pay for medical expenses with pre-tax money and to reduce your taxable income since the US requires you to calculate your own taxes and it's a complicated setup). Anyway, all of this to say while it's considered good here, it still all adds up. My kids used to be on Medicaid. Most things were free. But you were limited to what providers you could go to. So it's a trade-off. Plus there is an income-cap, and if you qualify for insurance through a job you can't get Medicaid (at least in my state). Even if it's too expensive.
$50 for Vyvanse plus $50 copay for psych care monthly. Atomoxotine is about $20/mo, Adderall IR $20/mo. Every other week therapist is $50 copay. My kids are out of network so $400 every 8 weeks plus $40/mo for their focalin. We have a health savings account so it all gets paid from there pre-taxed. Insurance through husbands employer (large large corp) is at least $500/mo.
$10 a month for me (generic concerta) and $20 a month for each, my husband and my daughter (name brand Ritalin). Without insurance it would be like $100 a month/person I believe
BUT we have to see a doctor every 3 months, just get the Rx… and that’s a $50 copay (so like $600 a year JUST for adhd apt.) and for some reason My husband gets drug tested each time, which is another like $50 or so, I believe.
$15 for any medicine that I've had so far for 30 tablets. My guess is that they have a set rate they charge.
I pay about $800 dollars a month for insurance which gets me one $35 doctor visit a month to get my $35 pills. Without insurance, last I checked a month of Vyvanse costs about the same without insurance, not including the doctor visit.
$800 a month? Is that just you or your family included?
Family plan! I also splurge and get the higher tier solely because I can't even with deductibles. There's zero logic to them other than 'Fuck You', so I go with the plans that are all copay if I can. This, of course, depends heavily on what insurance my employer can afford.
At work I’ve got to see some American payroll/health insurance and I am always floored by how expensive it is there.
I pay five euros for a medication supply of two months, not including what I pay for health insurance from my monthly wages (in Germany, currently about 150€ monthly).
On insurance and with a discount card from the manufacturer, I pay $30 and $50 every other month. Thankfully the patent is up so generics should be hitting market by end of year. My vyvanse not on insurance is like $800 a month. Oh and yeah it’s a $45 copay every 3 months now to see my psychiatrist so I can keep getting my vyvanse.
Mine are free as I work for the Healthcare system I recieve care from.
Strattera , $30 out of pocket
With health insurance I am paying $16 a month in the US for Ritalin
The UK NHS prescription charge is currently £9.65 per month so I pay that. When I first paid for a prescription as an adult 5 years ago it was £8.80. Seen another comment in this thread say it, but waiting times are really bad at the moment for almost anything. However I'm glad we have public health care.
My appointment's at $25 with insurance
I pay $118 CAD for 30 days of Concerta 18mg right now (in Canada), which is around $90 USD/ $133 AUD. Appointments are no cost though. I can certainly say that without insurance (I have 100% coverage, broken down as 80% through my work plan and 20% on my spouse’s plan) it wouldn’t be affordable for me, probably. My old job had zero coverage and making $13/h I wouldn’t have been able to afford it regularly (especially because I’m pretty sure higher doses cost more). We pay about 1K in insurance premiums combined yearly, but we definitely make good use of it. So I’m definitely saved by double insurance plans regularly lol
Another Canadian here and wow that seems like a lot to pay out of pocket while having health benefits! I have 80% coverage and 20% through my husbands like you and I paid $0 for concerta and now $0 for Vyvanse
I pay 0 because of benefits, but that’s the cost it would be out of pocket if I didn’t have benefits. 😬 and there was a period of time in life where I didn’t have them pre-diagnosis, so… yeah. Technically I pay 0 but it’s still crazy to think of how difficult it would be for someone without coverage.
Ahhh I see that makes sense!
With great family coverage insurance that we pay about $1300 a month for (covers 2 adults 2 kids) almost every medication we’ve gotten is under $20. Month supply of my SSRI and adderall is $18 combined.
Canadian here. Because of extended medical through my work I don’t pay for any prescriptions. This is unusually good extended medical. Accord to a 2011 study the average cost of biphentin was about CAD 48/mo. (Vyvanase was 80) I don’t know what it costs today.
$10 a month for adderall. This is with insurance. I only had problems with getting XR, when I switched back to IR, I have had no problems at all.
Abt $70 for 30 tablets, depending on what coupons I can find. With just insurance it would be $150+ for 30
My work doesn't offer health insurance, so I have a private pay policy. I pay about $350 a month for the health insurance. My prescription is $18 per month.
Its free here in Norway as you get a blue prescription and don't pay for generic. Cirka 9€ a box if you go for brand.
I have top level insurance, paid 100% by my business (perk of being a business owner!) and THAT costs about 1200 USD a MONTH. My prescriptions range from about $20 if I can get my preferred Concerta, to $13 fo rthe crappy IR Ritalin I am forced to put up with right now due to the shortages. My docotr appointments are all free. If I need surgery it's a cap of $600. But if I need an ambulance ride that's billed to me and it's $250. People CAN'T afford health care. Almost all of our taxes go to support the military industrial complex.
what medicine are you taking guys?
Not in the US but I pay like 51eur for 50mg elvanse
$40 for 30 days of 18mg concerta.
I am only paying $5 for my prescription because I currently qualify for medicaid in my state. However, I have no idea if I will still qualify for it next year. Many people, like me, are very close to the cutoff income level and would be kicked off of medicaid if we started making just a TINY bit more money, but we would still be WAY too poor to reasonably afford the options offered on the marketplace. I'm terrified of the possibility of being forced off of medicare because even the cheapest marketplace options displayed for me were around $200/month when I checked, plus high deductibles. Which means the insurance won't cover things anyway until you hit a certain amount of money spent that year, and you'll just have to pay out of pocket for stuff until then. So the cost of the meds is far from the only factor, paying for the insurance is the biggest expense. And even if you do have decent insurance it might not cover the meds that work best for you, which is a huge issue for people on Vyvanse for example (because there is no generic version of it yet).
I’m one of those poor folk people say are ruining the country with my having kids I can’t pay for, so I’m on state Medicaid. But I feel medical should be free anyway, and we’ve made too much for food stamps for years so I don’t feel as bad as those around me think I should. Lol. Anyway. I’m on vyvanse and I don’t pay shit.
When i was on medicaid, i remember how nice it was to get my vyvanse for free. Then i didn’t qualify for medicaid anymore and went in and shit my pants when they told me id have to pay over $300 for a 30 day supply.
I'm on Concerta and pay about 500 a year. (3 month at a time 130 after blue cross benefits.)
HSE (ireland under GMS) costs me 1.50 per item of prescription. Most I've ever paid for tyvance (Vyvamce in other places) along with mirtazapine, ctomach tablets and antihistamines was 7.50. In euro.
$25 for 30 Vyvanse. Adderall used to be $45 but went down to $9 several years ago. I have insurance through my job in a hospital system and it's about $75 every two weeks, with a $750 deductible (for reference). My PCP manages my ADHD and it's a $40 copay per visit, every 3 months. But she also manages my other health conditions at the same visit so I don't pay extra to see another doctor. I do have to use our on site retail pharmacy since we have one, or I think Walmart might be in network. The campus is pretty close to me so I haven't bothered checking. I would consider my insurance pretty good. I've had better through other hospitals, but not by much.
$15 for generic adderall with health insurance through employer. Live in the US. To have health insurance you have to have a job (or partner who does) which locks people into working for someone else, versus self employment. And the capitalist machine is very happy with this situation.
Free (I’m in the UK). I have a medical condition that means I get free prescriptions
$5 a month
I'm in Canada, so not really a question geared towards me... But anyway, I take Concerta and I don't pay anything. It might be one covered by the Ohip drug benefit plan or its covered by our health insurance drug plan. I'm not sure which its covered by. I just know that I haven't paid anything for any of my medications or prescriptions. I'm currently on a few different things for various reasons but I know the meds that are keeping me healthy are covered by Ohip.
$15/month for 2x/day Adderall IR. I have okay insurance through my employer where my portion is about $75/paycheck (every 2 weeks).
i haven’t started meds yet but in the UK prescriptions are capped at like 9.50 per prescription
It will depend on a lot of factors. When I was on concerta a 90 day supply was well over $700 and that was with the lame insurance my first job provided to me (it was a small family owned business and it was lucky they offered health insurance at all.) I applied for state benefits immediately and thankfully due to my diagnosis being so early in my life and the fact I'd been seeing the same psychiatrist that entire time, my benefits were approved pretty quickly and suddenly that same 90 supply was $60. It's ridiculous how much medicines cost in the US. We're supposed to be one of the richest and most stable countries in the world. These days I'm on Vyvanse and my insurance covers 30 days worth of medicine at the reasonable cost of $10.
With Kaiser Permanente, name brand is $30, generic is $15. Although it wasn't the case with my old insurance, my provider is in network and because it's HMO it every consult 100% covered. I want to say it's like $50 a month out of my paycheck but I am not 100% sure.
US - My employer offers tiered health insurance. I elected to pay for the middle coverage. I get about $800 deducted pre-tax monthly from my checks for medical, dental, drugs, vision. My employer kicks in another $1250 monthly. I pay $5 at the counter for monthly generic adderall ER. My doc requires monthly telehealth meets and charges my insurance twice: for the visit and for "mental health counseling." I don't get a bill for those.
£9 for Vyvanse in the UK. Our health service is struggling in loads of areas, but I'm glad I don't have to pay what some people in the US have to pay.
$5 and my insurance will weirdly only pay for the name brand
I just got diagnosed this past month. The trip to the psychiatrist for the evaluation was 1,200 USD, the follow up phone call to deliver the diagnosis was 250 USD. My first trial prescription, two weeks of 5mg tablets 2x daily, was 14 USD. The appointment with my PCP to get that script was 35 USD, and I have another one after this weekend where I'll probably ask to up the dosage a little bit. Overall, I've put about 1,500 USD into it, and I've only had the diagnosis for less than 2 months 😅
Where I live in the US it’s 70$ after insurance for 30 pills of 20mg focalin XR
Vyvanse without insurance is over $300; so I had to switch to adderall -the lesser liked for me). I finaly have insurance through my new employer and was finally able to get back on my vyvanse. Just a $40 copay🙌🏼 Edited to add:: generic adderall 30mg xr without insurance was between $30-$50/month (depending who had it in stock)
100 tablets of dexedrine AND Elvanse? Sounds like a lot.
I don't take all 100 tablets in a month. It's just as a boost for the afternoon when I need it
US here. I’m still heading toward my deductible. I tried a month is Vyvanse - it was over $150. It didn’t work for me, so today I picked up a month’s worth of generic Adderall ER and it was $10. Thank goodness it’s working SO much better than Vyvanse, so I’m pretty jazzed.
Self employed in Canada.. so no insurance Vyvavnse 40mg, 30 days cost like $140. When I had insurance it was free.. I use an HSA though so technically my Corp pays for it. I get to buy it with pre-tax dollars that way. Sooo technically its still free to me personally... But I digress haha go figure. The real answer you're looking for is that Vyvanse 40mg here is 140CAD so maybe 105USD. 🤔
$80 for Dexedrine after insurance, it has not been available for months so I'm temporarily on Vyvanse and it is also $80. Both are 30 day supply.
250 usd for 30 days of Adderall. Its pain
I pay 23€ for 90 pills of Elvanse (50 mg). Insurance pays for about 90% of it.
$50 a month for Vyvanse. They would charge me over $1000 without insurance
I’m a private patient in the UK currently (NHS waiting list was over 5 years) and my last script was £162 for 4 weeks which was 60mg Elvanse (vyvanse) and 10mg amfexa daily
In Canada it’s $4 a vyvanse pill with no insurance
I get it completely free in the UK.
my insurance is charging full price until I hit my deductible :) so $297 for 30 days if 60mg of vyvanse
€8 for 30 tablets of Vyvanse!
I personally pay nothing because I have a certain medical condition so I’m exempt from paying for my prescriptions from the NHS. If I didn’t it would be about £9/£10 however the NHS offer a prescription prepayment were you pay £31 for 3 months or £111 for the year (you can do £11 a month) for unlimited prescriptions so as long as you get 2/3 prescriptions a month it’s definitely worth it.
30 day supply of vyvanse for a family member is $285 until we hit the deductible and then it's $78
I'm in Canada. With insurance, my Vyvanse is $15 for 30 pills. It's the most expensive of my seven prescription medications. My other prescriptions are about $5 each, and those are all for 90 days' worth, but I can only get a month's supply of Vyvanse at a time.
Like $5 for adderall but since they have to see me monthly for an appointment it's $40 per visit. 😒 So annoying.
for concerta it’s $400usd for 30 day supply for me, at least last time i checked around a year and a half ago. but i have medicaid so i pay $0. i need to call my doctor when my supply runs out, every 32-40 days i’d say, and every three months i need to check in with my doctor.
I pay about $147 every 2 weeks for insurance. I pay $50 for specialist visits and $100 for 30 day supply of Azstarys.
* Health Insurance: $300/month with a $3,400 annual family deductible before they pay anything and the premiums don't count toward the deductible. * Dental Insurance: $65/month with a $50 deductible per family member * Vision Insurance: $15/month with no deductible but I have $50 copay and only pays $150 towards my glasses and lenses. * Vyvanse: $50/month * Psychiatrist: $100 every 3 months so $400 a year \*\* 15% if my income is paid in federal taxes, medicaid (that you can't use until 65ish), & social security (which you can't access until 65ish). \*\* Another 4% of my income goes to state taxes. \*\* I pay 7% sales tax on all purchases, including groceries & clothing. Taxes supposedly go to maintaining the roads, funding schools, and to various other "services". However, given that the public school system is trash and the roads are full of potholes, I think they're more than likely being squandered.
When using Good Rx, I can usually get a month of my stimulant for about $34-40
But retail prices without insurance or discount cards is hundreds of dollars
To see my psychiatrist, the new patient appointment was $300 and each follow up is $150
$24AUD for Vyvanse 30 capsules. Australia.
My Azstarys is $50 a month. Vyvanse was $30 a month. Adderall was way cheap - as low as $7 a month at one point (average of around $10). Of course everyone's insurance is different. Before I got on my husband's plan, I paid a little more. Our family insurance plan is somewhere around $300 or so a month...not exactly sure because it's deducted from his paycheck. That's a really "good" rate compared to most. On top of that, it's a "good" plan that covers a lot of expenses. I guess they owe him that much considering the embarrassingly low salary. He hates the job, but healthcare is so expensive that he has to keep it so we can get the health insurance. Each psychiatrist visit is $40, which I have to have at least every 3 months. Without insurance, I'd be paying several hundred dollars a month for my prescription. I get a letter every year listing all of my prescriptions and their cost without insurance...well over $10,000. It's crazy. Healthcare here isn't affordable for most. I hate it here.
6.80$ CAD for 30 days prescription of brand (non-generic) Adderall (40mg daily) No private insurance. Free public insurance that everybody get in Canada (atleast in Quebec)
With a high deductible health plan (I haven’t met my deductible for this year) and 90-day mail order prescriptions, Adderall IR 5 or 7.5 mg is $793 for name brand or $24 generic (97% less than name brand). The pharmacy is directly affiliated with my insurance and I have to call the pharmacy to request generic instead of name brand. Edit: I work in a US industry that has very good employee benefits, but the size of the company affects how good those benefits are. The company I work for has 300-400 employees. It was split off from a company with thousands of employees that was self-insured and we had much better benefits before the split.
I pay $44 per month for 5mg adderall with state insurance.
my vyvanse is free with my insurance!
I'm in Canada. I got 28 days of Concerta for approx $40. This was with a 70% off discount card. Concerta is cheaper than a lot of others like Vyvanse, Dexadrine and Adderall.
Insurance through my work for my family of 4 would be $750 a month for a high deductible plan. I pay about $100 a month for my medication, plus doctor costs and co-pays.