Teszpire is FDA approved for asthma, but not for COPD; that's probably the issue. If you can get your doc to go to bat for you with the insurance company, it might help.

To answer your question, yes, several times, but only in the past year or so. Must be some new way for the insurance companies to torment us. It's a shame because it's usually a drug that could do us a lot of good, like the tezspire you mentioned.

There is a 'Right to Try' law in about 38 states. Roughly it says that when a terminally ill patient is left with no other options, he has the right to try a drug that has not been fully okay'd by the FDA. I don't know all the details, but it's worth looking into. It could be said that we still have several options, but people are dying of COPD every day, so I would take that to mean those people have run out of options. Maybe we should all be talking to our doctors about this new law?