Acts of Friendship. For Ashley, it was like this: She was sitting with a big group in the school lunchroom when she accidentally knocked her drink onto her lap. As word spread that it looked like Ashley had wet herself, the laughter began to mount. Then she noticed her best friend doing something strange.
The price â listed as $23,800 for a 28-day supply â is slightly higher than the $300,000 average annual cost of Genzymeâs flagship Gaucher treatment Cerezyme, a protein-based enzyme replacement therapy that patients typically take by two-hour infusions every two weeks. Advertisement.
The cost is $450 per treatment, with a Medicare rebate of $90 to $230 per treatment depending on your safety net status. Severely affected legs usually require two treatments per leg. So for two treatments the cost is $900 with a rebate of $180 (more if the safety net is exceeded).