Posted by Marc
on 2/28/2009, 7:41 am, in reply to "Re: CMG"
Thanks for the reply and the info Carlos. It's nice to see a board directed at our area of the country, I also browse atwatchdog and wsm on a regular basis.
Yes, CMG's rates have gone up effective March 1 from $12 to $13/day and if you get diskettes for takehomes, $14/day. Monthly patients go from $336 to $392/month!
And I also know that many people pay more than that, many $100/week or up to $500/month!
The OBOT I used to go to in Maryland was $80/month! Even with a $170 round trip flight, plus the $80 and $5 for the train from BWI to the doctor's office, and you would be saving close to $150/month. Of course to be eligible for OBOT you have to have been clean for at least 2 or 3 years (I forget), which I have been having been in treatment for almost 25 years.
It's frustrating to have to pay such an increase. $1 I could understand in a way, but $2 for diskettes? I could barely afford the $336/month, now close to $400/month is ridiculous.
I've asked many doctors down here about obot and they all say the same thing, that it's available with buprenorphine, not methadone. I tell them about obot in Baltimore and NYC, and they say it's illegal. I guess they're pushing suboxone and don't want to get involved with methadone though they could if they wanted to.
And the doctor in Baltimore dispenses the methadone from his office, no prescriptions and they do allow the 40mg diskettes.
I wish I could find a reasonable fee clinic here in the Ft Lauderdale area but it seems they're all around the same ($400/month).
Again thanks for the info and talk to you soon.
Marc
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