Posted by Carlos
on 3/4/2009, 10:45 am, in reply to "Re: CMG"
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.
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TREATMENT PROGRAMS AND THE GOVERNMENT DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THIS TREATMENT IS EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE. SO NOT ONLY DO patients HAVE TO RECOVER FROM THE ADDICTION, BUT ALSO THE ECONOMICA HARRASMENT THE ESTABLISHMENT PROMOTES, IS AN OUTRAGE..... A MEDICATION THAT COST ONLY A FEW PENNIES PER DOSE AND A "REHABIITATION SERVICE" THAT THEY NEVER PROVIDE
NOR FREQUENTLY NOT NEEDED BY THE PATIENT(THEY ONLY WOULD NEED THE MEDICATION). THE COST WOULDN'T BE SO HIGH. WE WORRY ABOUT COST CONTAINMENT AND QUALITY CONTROL, BUT NOT IN METHADONE TREATMENT.
I THINK COST PROTEST SHOULD BE A NUMBER 1 PRIORITY IN THE COMMING YEARS. THAT IS ONE OF THE RASONS WHY MOST PONTENTIAL PATIENTS DO NOT ENTER TREATMENT. SHOOTING DOPE IS SOMETIME CHEAPER AND HAVE TO FOLLOW MUCH LESS HARRASSING RULES. WHEN IS SAMHSA & CSAT WILL UNDERSTAND THAT FOR PEOPLE TO ENTER TREATMENT IT MOST BE FACILITATING AND ATTRACTIVE TO THE PATIENT.
CONSUMERS FEAR PROTESTING BECAUSE THEY FEAR THAT THEY WILL LOOSE THE TREATMENT THEY WANT.
OBOTs Should be a lot more accessable by states. at least one or three that could be close geographycaly to most patients who met the requierments. I like what Belgium has done, their methadone treatment programs are like we do for suboxone. Once a month with a primary physician. I have not seen any data that says that they have somemuch problems with diversion and methadone deaths like they have had in the USA. What is the determining factor, I do not understand why they get so crazy in America, perhaps Belgium realy care for their patients and see what the real needs are. In stead they get a whole bunch of yo-yos that never ask their patients what the needs are. We surely could use socialized medicine like they do in most parts of europe. American doctors have a monopoly in treatments and laws, consumers are what need to be driving the health services in USA.
Power to the People 
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