Pharmacy benefit manager says Fluticasone HFA no longer okay - what options?
I take fluticasone propionate HFA ( formally known as Flovent before it went generic) for both asthma and EOE. I just got a notice in the mail from the pharmacy benefit manager for my insurance saying that fluticasone will no longer be covered and that I must try a couple of other alternatives they prefer instead, but those are clearly alternatives for my asthma and not for EOE. Has anyone else run into this in the US, and if so, what are you doing about it?
I might be able to convince them to keep covering it with letters from a doctor and stuff ( although I haven't seen a doctor for EOE in many years since I am well-maintained with the Flovent plus Protonix), but if they do cover Flovent, it will be covered as a nonpreferred brand and therefore more expensive. Definitely a very annoying situation.