Does Medicare pay for LDN?

[Tapdancer]

I will be getting Medicare soon. I spoke to Skip's Pharmacy about getting re-imbursed for LDN. They had no clue. Has anyone had any luck with this? Is there a Medicare drug program that is more likely to do this?

[wkikta]

I can not imagine any Insurance paying for LDN since it is very far off label, but the cost is low.

[JerryD]

Hi Nance,
i am recently posting in this site but have been reading for a few years. i am on 4.5 mg capsules of LDN, started 2 years ago with 3 mg's. I don't know about Medicare but my insurance doesn't even recognize it. If I was a heroin addict, they would recognize it at 50 mg's. But then, it would be used more as an emergency medicine. At low dose, i take it every night, before bed. I have seen at least 3 different MD's and until I found my current 'integrative' MD, I couldn't find anyone who knew what LDN was ! I don't know what you know about this, but it has to be 'compounded' specifically for you by a 'compounding ' pharmacy. And ,I understand, the pharmacy should have some experience doing this. I have read about some people that did not get the desired effect from the drug bought from an inexperienced pharmacy. I don't know how much credibility I give to that story. I pay for my LDN out of pocket. Good Luck

[its2much]

Do you know

what the price of LDN is?

[Sequoia]

what the price of LDN is?

It ranges between $15 and $38 for a month's supply.

Note: Be sure your compounding pharmacy does not give you slow-release LDN. Apparently some local compounding pharmacies have been doing that, and that form will not work for MS. You need to have your daily dose all at one time.

http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/#How_can_I_obtain_LDN

[knuckle]

Here is a list of reliable LDN compounding pharmacies:

http://www.ldnaware.org/ldn-info/101...emists-usa.asp

[Tapdancer]

Thanks so much for posting the information about the pharmacies. So much valuable information on this message board.