What You Don't Know About Your Prescription Drug Costs

Does your insurance company tell you that you can’t get a prescription filled because really “there is a better alternative to that medicine”? It may not be a better alternative for you (the patient) but it is a better alternative for the insurance company because you are saving them money.

Have you ever had to get a prescription filled at a higher dose and then required to “cut the pills in half” yourself? This is just another ploy to save your insurance company money but how does it benefit you?

Is your insurance company pressuring you to get your prescriptions filled thru their mail order house? Are they telling you how much money you can save? Have you thought to yourself, “Hey, I can get 3 months of my prescription thru the mail for the same price I can get one month at the local retail store”?

STOP BEFORE YOU SUCCUMB TO THE PRESSURE

Keep Your Pharmacy Open came across this great website Medicine & Money that patients need to read. The authors of this blog educate the patient on where your money actually goes when you get your prescription filled (it is not where you think) and what you can do about it. Bottom line, they tell you what your insurance company does not want you to know.

We encourage you to visit the Medicine & Money website and share your story about the problems you have encountered in getting your prescriptions filled. You can also go to General Public Links (on the right side of this page) and click on “Truth about prescription drug costs”.