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The switch could also save patients $5 billion in insurance copayments, according to a new study in Health Affairs. Ranibizumab, more commonly known by its brand name Lucentis, is delivered as an injection to the eye and runs about $2,023 per dose.Many patients require up to 12 injections per year. That's why some doctors choose to prescribe the much cheaper drug Avastin (bevacizumab) instead, which costs around $55 per dose.n 2010, the combined cost of using Avastin and Lucentis to treat eye disorders was around $2 billion â or about one-sixth of the entire Medicare Part B drug budget.
Contrasting with this, a patient purchasing a box of 3 Lantus Solostar pens, each of which contains 3 mL of insulin glargine, can use 1 pen every 28 days. Although the cost of the box of Lantus Solostar pens is approximately $400, no medication is wasted, and the cost to insurers is similar to the cost of the vial. 7-10 Despite the fact that insulin pens incur no greater cost than vials for patients using fewer than 18 units of insulin daily, many state Medicaid programs will not cover the cost of insulin pens under any circumstances.