What does one wear to a $20,000-a-dose drug infusion? At least one person suggested a tiara and evening gown.
One Skyrizi intravenous infusion dose is 600mg, or 2.1164 .21164 ounces. At $20,000 per dose that’s $9,450 $943,333 per ounce.
CORRECTION: my math was off by a factor of 10. Via JO 753 in a comment below:
“There are 28.3 gramz per ounse. 600 milligramz iz .6 gramz, so an ounse iz 47 dosez. Thats 943,333$ an ounse.
No wonder they can run commercialz for this stuff all day.”
For comparison, gold is $2,051 per ounce, as of this writing. So Skyrizi retails at more than four fourty-six times the cost of pure gold.
Since starting my Crohn’s disease adventure I’ve learned that basically no one pays the retail price of these drugs. Instead, an insurer pays a fraction, and the rest is written off by the pharmaceutical company and hospital so they can claim they’re “charities” and avoid taxes.
It would be like if I charged $150,000 for my $150 Drawings. Customers would still pay $150 and I’d set up a “financial assistance program” to generously cover the rest. Then I’d mark a net loss of $149,850 per drawing, which I could write off my taxes if I made enough to pay big taxes in the first place, but I don’t because I stay just below the poverty line so I can continue qualifying for Medicaid which pays for my Skyrizi.
That’s the difference between someone who buys a cheap tiara and fake movie-prop money off Amazon, and someone who is actually rich.
Anyway that’s it for my hospital-administered Skyrizi infusions. My next $20,000 dose will be a 360 mg/2.4 mL “single-dose prefilled cartridge with on-body injector”. That’s $15,748 $157,222 per ounce, equivalent to about 7.68 76.8 ounces of gold.
Gold is looking like a real bargain right now.
Ah, so the treatment continues, but at home. Have you had any difficult side effects, or is it all good?
God this medical system.
Tiara and gown excellent way to meet this moment.
@nina Before switching to gold infusions, inform yourself of whether gold has comparable curative or palliative effects regarding your condition as Skyrizi has.
Also, get it in a solution or something. AFAIK, elemental gold is solid at body temperature and foreign solids in your bloodstream are usually bad for you.
As for keeping it classy, maybe such gold infusions are available at Tiffany & Co. in the morning?
No.
There are 28.3 gramz per ounse. 600 milligramz iz .6 gramz, so an ounse iz 47 dosez. Thats 943,333$ an ounse.
No wonder they can run commercialz for this stuff all day.
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