Preguntas frecuentes sobre Nevirapine
How much does Nevirapine cost without insurance?
Uninsured customers pay $478.51 for Nevirapine. However, federal ADAP (AIDS Drug Assistance Program) will help uninsured HIV/AIDS patients with most or all of the Nevirapine cost, and the HarborPath ADAP Waiting List Program may help patients with Nevirapine during ADAP funding shortfalls. For uninsured patients on the ADAP waiting list who still cannot affordably fill their prescription, a SingleCare Nevirapine coupon reduces the cost to $19.16.
How much does Nevirapine cost with insurance?
Copay costs of Nevirapine differ greatly depending on your insurance plan. With a SingleCare discount card, Nevirapine costs $19.16 per 60, 200mg tablets. Ask your pharmacist to compare your insurance copay to your SingleCare discount. Your Nevirapine price with SingleCare often could be lower.
Does Medicare cover Nevirapine and how much does it cost?
Nevirapine is usually covered by Medicare prescription drug plans, but the brand-name version, Viramune, sometimes is not. Patients without coverage can turn to ADAP for assistance. For those on the ADAP waiting list who still cannot affordably fill their prescription, a SingleCare Nevirapine coupon reduces the cost of a Nevirapine prescription $19.16.
What is the brand name of Nevirapine?
Nevirapine is a generic prescription drug manufactured by Apotex, West-Ward, Cipla, and others. Nevirapine is also the active ingredient in the brand-name drug, Viramune, manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim.
What is Nevirapine?
Nevirapine is a generic prescription drug used that, when used in combination with very similar drugs, reduces the amount of HIV/AIDS virus in HIV/AIDS patients. These drugs are called antiretroviral drugs, because HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a primitive virus called a retrovirus. The HIV virus attacks the immune system. As the amount of virus in the body increases, the immune system deteriorates to the point where it can no longer protect the body from infections and cancers.
What makes HIV a retrovirus is that it doesn't have DNA, but carries its genetic information in a more primitive form, called RNA. Before HIV can make new virus particles, it must first make a DNA copy of its genetic information. To do this, the virus uses a protein called reverse transcriptase to drive the whole process.
Nevirapine blocks reverse transcriptase. Without the use of this protein, HIV cannot make DNA. Without DNA, HIV cannot make new viruses, and the amount of virus goes down. This allows the immune system to recover.
Nevirapine is taken as a tablet or oral solution once daily for two weeks, and then twice daily with other antiretroviral drugs.
What are the side effects of Nevirapine?
The most common side effects of Nevirapine are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, stomach pain, feeling tired, muscle pain, and headache. Less common side effects include dizziness, sleepiness, facial swelling, chest pain, fast heartbeat, cold sores, back pain, anemia, and potentially fatal liver damage.
Allergic reactions are rare but can be very severe, including Stevens-Johnson syndrome, a potentially life-threatening skin reaction over the entire body involving blisters, a dark rash, eye pain, skin pain, and fever. Nevirapine will be discontinued permanently if you show signs of an allergic reaction.
This is not a complete list of side effects. Your physician will address your questions and concerns regarding potential side effects.
