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In the past, most medication plans from insurance companies did cover other drugs used for treating erectile dysfunction, such as the vasoactive drugs for penile injection. When Viagra first became available in early April of 1998, many insurance plans initially covered all prescriptions with a "wait and see what effect Viagra has on the cost of prescriptions for the individual plan." It did not take long for the insurance plan administrators to realize that the cost for most plans was going to be substantial.

The response from insurance companies has varied from an absolute rejection of all Viagra coverage to one of covering Viagra cost, provided the prescribing physician writes a letter supporting the medical necessity of the Viagra. The problem with the latter approach is that there are a number of patients who are not diabetic and who are not post-radical prostatectomy, or post some other type of illness or injury where the etiology is clear-cut. In those individuals without a clear-cut etiology, yet individuals who have a physical problem due to their erectile dysfunction complaints, individuals who have been using penile injections as the only means of achieving an adequate erection have often seen their request for insurance coverage of their Viagra fall on deaf ears.

Medicare does not have a drug plan as such and has never covered oral prescription medicine. On the other hand, Medicaid historically has had a drug formulary of covered medicines. Medicaid patients are expected to pay a very small co-pay with each prescription. Other drugs such as papaverine or Caverject, which are used to treat erectile dysfunction by their application with penile injections, have never been covered in the past by Medicaid. Whether Medicaid should now cover Viagra or not has been a question that has received a lot of opinions on both sides. Certainly, one could make the argument that indigent patients should have access to the same care as those non-indigent patients, even though the total numbers of purely Medicaid covered males with erectile dysfunction is, I think, much smaller than some of the projections we hear from state Medicaid directors.

In my own practice, which covers a cross section of individuals, I see very few purely Medicaid patients. Most of the patients I see with Medicaid are elderly who have a combination of Medicare and Medicaid. So now we have a situation with Viagra where Medicare and Medicaid have not covered the drug and most private insurance drug plans which initially started covering the drug now have placed a lot of restrictions. So where do we go from here?

Fortunately, for the short term, the majority of patients can afford to pay for the drug out of pocket. Looking at the cost from a longer term perspective, I see no reason that the insurance plan actuarial staff could not come up with an option for individuals who wish to have coverage for Viagra or any other future erectile dysfunction medication. This plan could be modeled after the plan currently used for childbearing age females, where the insurance does cost more in premiums for "maternity care."

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Since going on sale in April 1998, Viagra has become not just the talk of the town but the talk of the globe. As a urologist with a busy practice, I have treated thousands of impotent men over the past twenty years. I can certify that the wonder drug’s immediate impact has been unprecedented in my profession and that it has truly revolutionized the initial approach to the treatment of erectile dysfunction. In the process, the tiny blue pill has fueled new debates over sexuality, medical insurance, government regulation, and even foreign trade.

Viagra does not work in all cases, but the majority of impotent men who take the drug have positive results with few side effects. For now, Viagra has made my job as a urologist much easier. In almost every case, a new patient who comes in with an impotency problem will get a Viagra prescription instead of a lengthy, expensive evaluation involving numerous tests. The patient who does not respond fully to Viagra is then a candidate for a complete work-up and a return to pre-Viagra treatment options. Many people do not understand what those options are, and one of my goals in this book is to explain them.

Viagra is obviously the treatment of the nineties for erectile dysfunction, but there were other significant advances in the sixties, seventies, and eighties. There will be other advances in the future. Thus it is important to remember that no matter how revolutionary and useful it is, Viagra is not the be-all and end-all of impotency treatment.

So, in the chapters that follow, we will look closely at how the penis works. You will be surprised at much of this, and I think you will be fascinated, for the male reproductive system is one amazing piece of engineering. There is some complicated medical information in the first few chapters, but I’ve tried to explain things so a layperson can understand the summaries and any doctors reading this book will find sufficient detail for their purposes, too. After examining the common causes of male impotency (erectile dysfunction), the current pre-Viagra treatment options are summarized. Then an in-depth look at Viagra is presented: What is it? How do I take it? What are the contraindications? What about side effects? What is the cost? These and other questions are answered.

What about Viagra for females? Viagra does affect women, and answers to these and other questions about future uses of Viagra will be forthcoming from studies currently underway.

As male self-esteem is returned and self-confidence is elevated, will men use Viagra to improve relationships and become more romantic? Only time will tell, yet the potential of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction treatments for improving relationships is one of the most important themes of this book. What’s love got to do with it? sings Tina Turner. The answer is … a lot.

After thirst and hunger, sex is one of the most basic and powerful human urges. The man who wants to be sexually active but cannot get or sustain an erection may be embarassed to talk about his problem, but most impotent men can be helped. This book shows how.

I’ve tried to make the book fun and interesting to read. I pass along some of the jokes and quotes I’ve heard, and I also talk some about the common misconceptions and myths we’ve heard all our lives about sex in general and the penis in specific. Actually, they’re not all myths, but we’ll get to that. . .