Jevity 1.5

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Cathelen72
Cathelen72 Member Posts: 33 Member
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
Is anyone in need of some.? I have a couple of cases I did not use and would hate it to go to waste. It expires in July. I am even happy to pay to ship it. We had to argue with our insurance company to even cover it as they believed it was unnecessary. How can they pay for a PEG tube but deny coverage for the sustenance one needs to use with the PEG tube? Damn insurance. Anyway we won the argument. If you can use the Jevity let me know.

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  • Kent Cass
    Kent Cass Member Posts: 1,898 Member
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    Insurance?
    Mine- United Healthcare- refused to pay for my Jevity 2.0, or the 1.5 I started with- did your's pay for it?

    kcass
  • longtermsurvivor
    longtermsurvivor Member Posts: 1,842 Member
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    That very nice of you.
    I'm sure someone needs it.

    Pat
  • Cathelen72
    Cathelen72 Member Posts: 33 Member
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    Kent Cass said:

    Insurance?
    Mine- United Healthcare- refused to pay for my Jevity 2.0, or the 1.5 I started with- did your's pay for it?

    kcass

    Yes
    In the end they agreed to pay for what had already been delivered but nothing more. Fotrtunately I did not need any more.
  • DrMary
    DrMary Member Posts: 531 Member
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    Insurance
    That was one of the selling points for the PEG, was that insurance would pay for Jevity or anything else that was made for the PEG. Doug didn't get the PEG so never found out.

    Did you have a prescription for it? There must be some tricks that experienced doctors pull to make sure health insurance pays.

    BTW, congrats on not needing it any longer!
  • ratface
    ratface Member Posts: 1,337 Member
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    DrMary said:

    Insurance
    That was one of the selling points for the PEG, was that insurance would pay for Jevity or anything else that was made for the PEG. Doug didn't get the PEG so never found out.

    Did you have a prescription for it? There must be some tricks that experienced doctors pull to make sure health insurance pays.

    BTW, congrats on not needing it any longer!

    Watch the expiration date
    The stuff is hard to even give away and the expiration date is nonsense in terms of the product being useful or not, but any licensed facility will not take expired stuff. There are other great uses for the stuff. If you own a dog it makes a great food supplement and many pet shelters will take the stuff expired or not. It also has a vast market in elderly nutrition. If you know any older folks they most certainly already augment their daily diets with ensure or something similar and would love to save some money. I disposed of five cases to the elderly with expired labels on them. I think you could open a can of this stuff in 2112 and it would still be good.
  • D Lewis
    D Lewis Member Posts: 1,581 Member
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    DrMary said:

    Insurance
    That was one of the selling points for the PEG, was that insurance would pay for Jevity or anything else that was made for the PEG. Doug didn't get the PEG so never found out.

    Did you have a prescription for it? There must be some tricks that experienced doctors pull to make sure health insurance pays.

    BTW, congrats on not needing it any longer!

    Insurance
    My Anthem Blue Cross policy paid for my Jevity. I was prescribed a feeding pump, owing to my inability to hold down even a single can of the stuff at a time during chemo. The medical supply service that provided the pump also provided the Jevity and was able to bill them both to my insurance. I was told that if I had not had the pump, my insurance would not have paid for the Jevity.

    The medical supply service would delivery Jevity several cases at a time, along with the feeding bags that worked with the pump. At the end, I took five cases of the stuff over to my local cancer center, and they gave it to a patient whose insurance was not paying. The stuff had not expired, although some of it was fairly close to expiration.

    Deb
  • soccerfreaks
    soccerfreaks Member Posts: 2,788 Member
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    a place for jevity
    I could find no one to take it at first, not a hospital, not ACS, not a homeless shelter. Someone suggested an animal shelter so I tried our local one, and they would take the unexpired, but not the expired. PETA took all of them, happily.

    Good luck finding a location. Someone needs it, that's for sure, but it is considered a medical substance around here, apparently, so clearly, like unusued bandages and such, cannot be accepted above the table (under the table, you might find a kindly nurse who is dealing with the indigent directly and always collecting boxes of stuff for them).

    Take care,

    Joe
  • robinleigh
    robinleigh Member Posts: 297
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    Maybe
    The hope lodge if you are in a large cancer center city...we were at mayo and there was a hope lodge that took our extra cans.

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