Starting this past January 1 if you are on Medicare insulin will cost you no more than $35 per script per month. For people with type 1 diabetes, like myself who are not on a pump, that’s more like $70 per month, as we use two different insulins a day, both a rapid and long-acting insulin.

You do not have to first meet a deductible and the cost is intended to be applied at point of sale, like when you buy your insulin at the pharmacy, but some Medicare Plan Ds (Pharma) will not have their payment systems updated until the end of March.

For more details, here’s an article in today’s Wall Street Journal, “How the New $35 Cap on Insulin Costs Will Work.“