{"id":522685,"date":"2026-06-28T13:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/522685\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T13:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T13:47:08","slug":"patients-can-save-thousands-with-drug-coupons-but-only-if-insurers-honor-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/522685\/","title":{"rendered":"Patients can save thousands with drug coupons, but only if insurers honor them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"6UJXBDGDZ5CJJOME24OQS3O7J4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help him pay for a psoriatic arthritis medication he needs that costs more than $7,700 a month.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YFMM4QCWOBARBI6EZCFMBDUMEI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Each year, Amgen, which makes the drug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.enbrel.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.enbrel.com\/\">Enbrel<\/a>, sent the coupon card worth thousands of dollars, and that counted toward Gruber\u2019s health insurance deductible and out-of-pocket maximum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 16 years, Larry Gruber, a fitness coach from Wilton Manors, Florida, received a coupon card to help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-522685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}