People read this?

As I'm sure anyone who stumbled on this knows, I haven't logged into blogger in about forever. So I was amazed today when i saw that there were 4 comments that needed to be moderated. A thousand apologies and a couple hundred promises to try to keep up the posting.

To answer a question about the coverage of Nuvaring under Kaiser Permanente. What I can say is that while in DC/NoVA/MD, I was only able to get Nuva ring partially covered under the KP Flexible Choice plan. This was at a rate of $25 a month. I did, however, just move to Northern California to work for a company with KP Classic coverage. With a treatment failure exception, I only pay the standard copay $5/month's supply. I have been very lucky to join an organization with this level of coverage. However, the KP Flexible choice plan is billed as the plan that is cost effective for both small businesses and patients - which means that the treatment that anyone under this plan receives is suffering.

I'm not sure what the answer will be to this. The best we can all do is to continue lobbying insurance companies and employers to cover a full range of contraceptive options.