OK, here is another chapter in my "adventures" to fill my prescriptions.
I was out of one of my medications so I ask to have it refilled. It is a small pharmacy and they are only open until 1:00pm on Saturday and I get there at 2:00pm .
Was heading to our vacation house and was hoping there would be some of my medication here. I only found a single pill and was out today. Had my doctor call another prescription to the pharmacy close to our vacation house.
They call and it says it is ready a couple of hours ago. I go there and having never filled any prescription, I gave them my insurance card. Immediately I can sense trouble. Two people hovering over the computer and spending 5 minutes on it. And then comes the news: "we can't file this for insurance." I ask why not. They say since I had already "filled" it at the other pharmacy, the insurance company does not pay for it now.
They say I have to pay for it myself. Desperate to have the medication I say sure and ask how much it is. She says $7.95. Normally I pay $15 co-pay for this generic so I am surprised it is this low without insurance. Before I could celebrate the manager stops the person who was helping me and says, "that is not the correct price!" So I get ready: here it comes... A conversation starts with the pharmacist that works in the back and the manager says: "it costs four ninety five cash if he wants to pay for it himself." I am thinking holy cow, nearly $500 for 30 pills??? Before I could spill my guts the person who was helping me comes back and says, "do you want to pay $4.95?" What the heck???? $4.95? Still in disbelief, I give here a $20 bill and she gives me $15.05 back in change!!!
Guys, help me understand this. I have been taking this medication for more than a year. Insurance company forces each refill to be only 30 pills so I am forced to keep paying $15 out of pocket deductible. Now this place only charges $5 for the whole thing???
Just in case you think this was a mistake, I was talking to my neighbor about high cost of insurance and he told me this is the cheapest pharmacy around. The place is called "Cost Less Drugs." The place was super crowded with a ton of people working behind the counter and folks getting a ton of stuff filled. Is it possible that there is some kind of subsidy going on? Or is it the case that there are tons of margins in these prescriptions and these guys, being in a rural area, charge so much less?
I take about a dozen prescriptions. Can't wait to get them all transferred to this place. It would literally save me thousands of dollars/year.
I was out of one of my medications so I ask to have it refilled. It is a small pharmacy and they are only open until 1:00pm on Saturday and I get there at 2:00pm .
Was heading to our vacation house and was hoping there would be some of my medication here. I only found a single pill and was out today. Had my doctor call another prescription to the pharmacy close to our vacation house.
They call and it says it is ready a couple of hours ago. I go there and having never filled any prescription, I gave them my insurance card. Immediately I can sense trouble. Two people hovering over the computer and spending 5 minutes on it. And then comes the news: "we can't file this for insurance." I ask why not. They say since I had already "filled" it at the other pharmacy, the insurance company does not pay for it now.
They say I have to pay for it myself. Desperate to have the medication I say sure and ask how much it is. She says $7.95. Normally I pay $15 co-pay for this generic so I am surprised it is this low without insurance. Before I could celebrate the manager stops the person who was helping me and says, "that is not the correct price!" So I get ready: here it comes... A conversation starts with the pharmacist that works in the back and the manager says: "it costs four ninety five cash if he wants to pay for it himself." I am thinking holy cow, nearly $500 for 30 pills??? Before I could spill my guts the person who was helping me comes back and says, "do you want to pay $4.95?" What the heck???? $4.95? Still in disbelief, I give here a $20 bill and she gives me $15.05 back in change!!!
Guys, help me understand this. I have been taking this medication for more than a year. Insurance company forces each refill to be only 30 pills so I am forced to keep paying $15 out of pocket deductible. Now this place only charges $5 for the whole thing???
Just in case you think this was a mistake, I was talking to my neighbor about high cost of insurance and he told me this is the cheapest pharmacy around. The place is called "Cost Less Drugs." The place was super crowded with a ton of people working behind the counter and folks getting a ton of stuff filled. Is it possible that there is some kind of subsidy going on? Or is it the case that there are tons of margins in these prescriptions and these guys, being in a rural area, charge so much less?
I take about a dozen prescriptions. Can't wait to get them all transferred to this place. It would literally save me thousands of dollars/year.