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Mine was close to $70,000. My insurance did not pay 100%.
The charges were $3745 every three weeks. My insurance wouldn't pay the usual prescription rate because they said the onc did not buy it from their preferred pharmacy. After some weeks of phone calls, and wrangling, the onc said he would accept what the insurance paid and wrote off the rest.
The amount written off each visit was $1216.
If it weren't for my onc, I may not have been able to get it because the insurance couldn't have cared less.
That said, I know the maker of herceptin, Genentech has a program that may allow you get herceptin for free or little cost.
I was one of those that made too much to get help and not enough to pay for it.
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12/12/06- IDC Stage III, 4x A/C, 35 rads, Herceptin 1 year
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