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Post by cedafuntennis on Jan 15, 2017 23:17:30 GMT -5
Someone said email Matt about doctors not wanting to prescribe. I'm am afraid that Mannkind will not do anything about that. I gave them a solid lead to a major hospital with 2 endos asking for a presentation and after 3 weeks not one call from Mannkind. Understand, I am not trying to sow discord as I am an investor myself but this situation makes be very doubtful. On this note....my husband's endo would not prescribe Afrezza for him. (we are in NJ). Took the list that showed MD's by state that are prescribing Afrezza. Waited 4 months for an appointment for a doctor listed that is part of a "diabetes and endocrine specialty practice." During his appointment, never stated that we were investors. Just asked about Afrezza. He gave a sneer, and said, I am not prescribing Afrezza. We went over the fact that several of our friends are on it and how great they feel, and all the attributes. He wanted to hear nothing. He wants to prescribe a once weekly shot instead. Left the appointment very depressed. It is so obvious that patients have to be the drive. These guys are so in bed with big pharma that it does not matter UNLESS enough patients demand it. Thanks for posting snow. That's awfull. Can you e-mail Mike, or find a GP on the list? I know what my client went through getting his teenagers on Afrezza. But wow was it worth it! Freedom! To really eat what you want and feel in control! Good luck:-)
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Post by pguererro on Jan 15, 2017 23:30:27 GMT -5
There are multiple prescribers in each market in the US listed on the Afrezza website. These prescribers have been picked by the sales force as doctors that will write Afrezza if the patient is a candidate.
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Post by sportsrancho on Jan 16, 2017 7:33:58 GMT -5
Someone said email Matt about doctors not wanting to prescribe. I'm am afraid that Mannkind will not do anything about that. I gave them a solid lead to a major hospital with 2 endos asking for a presentation and after 3 weeks not one call from Mannkind. Understand, I am not trying to sow discord as I am an investor myself but this situation makes be very doubtful. Thanks for posting snow. That's awfull. Can you e-mail Mike, or find a GP on the list? I know what my client went through getting his teenagers on Afrezza. But wow was it worth it! Freedom! To really eat what you want and feel in control! Good luck:-) IMO they need a team of presenters that will cover things like that. Then get the local rep out to handle follow ups and samples.
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Post by sayhey24 on Jan 16, 2017 9:50:16 GMT -5
Someone said email Matt about doctors not wanting to prescribe. I'm am afraid that Mannkind will not do anything about that. I gave them a solid lead to a major hospital with 2 endos asking for a presentation and after 3 weeks not one call from Mannkind. Understand, I am not trying to sow discord as I am an investor myself but this situation makes be very doubtful. IMO they need a team of presenters that will cover things like that. Then get the local rep out to handle follow ups and samples. I think we need Vdex like clinics up and going. When endo's start seeing packed clinics they too will start prescribing. I think MNKD needs to team with Abbott. I suspect Kevin Sayers hands are tied with what Google is doing with Onduo. For the clinics there is no need to wait for Onduo's grand plan.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 10:27:46 GMT -5
Someone said email Matt about doctors not wanting to prescribe. I'm am afraid that Mannkind will not do anything about that. I gave them a solid lead to a major hospital with 2 endos asking for a presentation and after 3 weeks not one call from Mannkind. Understand, I am not trying to sow discord as I am an investor myself but this situation makes be very doubtful. Thanks for posting snow. That's awfull. Can you e-mail Mike, or find a GP on the list? I know what my client went through getting his teenagers on Afrezza. But wow was it worth it! Freedom! To really eat what you want and feel in control! Good luck:-) You have to raise a stink about that both as a investor and working in the hospital. Did you write/call them? what was their response? very unacceptable. Lets see what pguererro has to say about it?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 10:30:57 GMT -5
There are multiple prescribers in each market in the US listed on the Afrezza website. These prescribers have been picked by the sales force as doctors that will write Afrezza if the patient is a candidate. There was a member who went to a doctor listed , had to wait 4 months and got turned down. So the picks had to better vetted first and is most important in the initial stages. The above situation made more harm than good.
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Post by sportsrancho on Jan 16, 2017 10:34:47 GMT -5
There are multiple prescribers in each market in the US listed on the Afrezza website. These prescribers have been picked by the sales force as doctors that will write Afrezza if the patient is a candidate. There was a member who went to a doctor listed , had to wait 4 months and got turned down. So the picks had to better vetted first and is most important in the initial stages. The above situation made more harm than good. Are we not calling the doctor first to make sure he/she will prescribe?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2017 10:37:05 GMT -5
There was a member who went to a doctor listed , had to wait 4 months and got turned down. So the picks had to better vetted first and is most important in the initial stages. The above situation made more harm than good. Are we not calling the doctor first to make sure he/she will prescribe? not sure what they did, may be they called asking if the doc office knew about Afrezza and not in particular about getting RX. Its part user error, but the point was to better vet the list
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Post by agedhippie on Jan 16, 2017 11:12:18 GMT -5
IMO they need a team of presenters that will cover things like that. Then get the local rep out to handle follow ups and samples. I think we need Vdex like clinics up and going. When endo's start seeing packed clinics they too will start prescribing. I think MNKD needs to team with Abbott. I suspect Kevin Sayers hands are tied with what Google is doing with Onduo. For the clinics there is no need to wait for Onduo's grand plan. Endos have insane waiting lists. I suspect you will find that they are more than happy if you go to a clinic and they can get their waiting time for an appointment down to a couple of months. The hospitals will be happy as well because their diabetes clinics usually run at a loss as the insurance reimbursement rates are so awful.
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Post by sayhey24 on Jan 16, 2017 20:41:42 GMT -5
I think we need Vdex like clinics up and going. When endo's start seeing packed clinics they too will start prescribing. I think MNKD needs to team with Abbott. I suspect Kevin Sayers hands are tied with what Google is doing with Onduo. For the clinics there is no need to wait for Onduo's grand plan. Endos have insane waiting lists. I suspect you will find that they are more than happy if you go to a clinic and they can get their waiting time for an appointment down to a couple of months. The hospitals will be happy as well because their diabetes clinics usually run at a loss as the insurance reimbursement rates are so awful. To near quote one of the endo's on that same Advisory Committee meeting which vote 27-1 to approve afrezza, the Technosphere Insulin Inhalation System which uses human insulin as its active ingredient, "I have second thoughts on voting to approve afrezza because if PCPs start prescribing afrezza I believe most PWD will no longer need me and afrezza will put me out of business" The last 7 words are a direct quote. I was sitting about 15 feet from this guy and his comment was so startling to me, I turned to my colleague and ask him to repeat what this doctor just said. Now here we are 3 years later. I would say most PCPs don't know anything about afrezza and the endo's who have heard about it view it as another rapid acting insulin which is not as good as the analogs. I can't blame them thats what the label says and thats how MNKD is marketing it. If Sayers hands are not tied with the Google/Onduo thing what I would do is issue a press release announcing the New Real-time "System" which mimics a healthy pancreas at meal time. The system would use afrezza and the Dexcom CGM. I would trademark some term close to Artificial Pancreas and hijack it, i.e. Homogeneous Pancreas, Synthetic Pancreas, Proxy Pancreas or some other better catch phrase.
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Post by ripano on Jan 26, 2017 11:21:35 GMT -5
Any updates on sales from Vdex ?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2017 11:25:55 GMT -5
Any updates on sales from Vdex ? vdex is just a place for RX and I think staffed only by appointment , bur RX fill should go through normal channels. As of now , there's only 1 person on twitter that could get offlabel rx that I know of . perhaps Kirk from Nuerogenx could provide some insight or even vdexdiabetes - but I doubt you can get a concrete answer. q4 earnings should give some color.
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