May 23, 2008 - 7:56pm
I found the website for the free RX card from Patient assistance.com to help with med costs for uninsured (* Lost my med.Insurance as of May 16th) here on this site in the health,drug topics & more section........
anyways,, the card & program is free. I looked up the most expensive drug i need to take which is the soma's > Generic of course. Dr. just switched me to a soma/codeine compound but its killing my tummy so i am going to ask him to switch me back to the plain ol 350mg soma's which worked better anyways.
with this card, I can get a 500 tablet bottle from my local pharmacy for $31.10.... the same pharmacy i called and priced my normal 120 a month and they told me $408.67......for 120 of them... one months worth....... with this card you can get 100,500 or 1000.... so i clicked the 500. I couldn't believe the savings... can you???? I mean seriously. and mail order is even cheaper.
my hydrocodone 7.5 which i priced at $89.99 for the 150 a month i get, With this card can get 500 tablet bottle for $70.75,not a huge savings, but when you have no insurance every lil penny of savings counts.
was wondering if anyone else here has used this RX card?? is this for real or am I going to go thru with this and have doc make the RX out for the 500 pills and then get to pharmacy and they tell me I owe them $2000.00 ( just an example)?????
I mean 500 of my med's is like what, 3.5 months worth?? that's allot better than the $1200.00+ for my somas for 3 months, and $300.00+ for my Vicodins....
is this something thats to good to be true & real type of deal??????
Thanks for any info, If you've used this card or have heard any info about this program I'd love to hear from you.
Linda
May 23, 2008 - 10:58pm
#2
was thinking that myself...
It also states that you can transfer any rx's you have out there to be used on this card, so Im gonna try that... even just getting what I need for the month, Im sure there is lots of savings...
I have refils on all my scrips, but was so freaked bythe $408+.00 cost of my somas... those are the ones that help me the most... I cannot afford to pay that much...
Lilbit aka Linda
Cervial disk rupture at c5/c6.Rupture took bone spurs and embedded them into spinal cord. Cervical Spinal Fusion, then Fustla repair of spinal cord to seal hole left by bone spur removal.
Fibromyalgia
May 24, 2008 - 7:38pm
#3
Discount RX cards.....
Thank you too Matt~ 
who pointed me to a great FREE Prescription discount program, I was able to print out my card, and price all my meds.
their web addy is FreeDrugCard.us ANYONE out there with no medical or perscription insurance should check this out.... GODSEND i tell you.
I signed up with the spirit program and priced all my meds at my local pharmacy~
no more worries about how the Heck i was gonna come up with $408.00 for just one of my prescriptions for one month...
with this discount card,
it will only be $19.35 for my soma's....instead of $408.00 not the ones with the codeine tho, those are killing my already troubled tummy, this is for 350 mg, 5 times a day.
My Vicodin ES's 5 times a day will be only $20.94 for the month, instead of $89.99
and all my others as well, seriously reduced prices.. but those 2 were the ones that shell shocked me & had me not taking them as I should trying to make them last longer... making me feel awful on top of feeling so depressed from the loss of job and medical .....
I got a new job this week, and have found a way to get all my med's..
I encourage all to look into it.....
Thank you again Matt....
Linda.
May 24, 2008 - 8:24pm
#4
Pizz, doctors in most all
Pizz, doctors in most all states can write for 90 day supplies with no problems. I think they could write for a little longer, but if you go too long I think that would get into the grey area of an established Doctor/Patient relationship not being kept. There is one state, that actually has a qty #100 limit on CII and maybe CIII, I dont remember right off hand which one, New England area I think. But there is legislation in the works to change that rule. Even on drugstore.com (some type of partners with RiteAid I believe) you can submit a 90 day supply script for controlled meds and have them filled.
Lilbit, the only way your going to pay $408.00 for Soma is if you get name brand, and theres no reason to get name brand Soma when Qualitest and Waston both make a really good generic. I just got qty #60 filled at Walgreens for $31.00 and walgreens is one of the most expensive pharmacies out there.
The problem with the "Discount Drug Cards" is that they arent insurance and they dont compensate the pharmacies for the reduced price, so pharmacies dont have to go by what the price listed on the discount cards website is. But if you got price quotes from your pharmacy with the card, thats cool if it made the meds cheaper. I too was going to try one of the discount card websites that offered mail order, but I was afraid that my scripts would never get mailed. This site does 90 day supply fills, and they are cheap and the meds actually come. Prices are either $20,$30, or $40 depending on what you get. They dont have any CIII or CII but they do have some CIV's. I got a 90 supply of Motrin 800mg and the bottle they shipped was #%^*! near the size of a 1 litre pop bottle, lol.
Sry for the long rambling post.
May 24, 2008 - 8:40pm
#5
No Prob for long rambling
No Prob for long rambling post... ;) Im famous for them... lol
the $408.00 was my RX for generic soma/codeine compound, 120 pills for 1 month at CVS. Giant Eagle quoted $368.00 and I think I called Rite Aid which was $312.00 not sure, got so upset just didnt call anyother stores.... the name brands were like $900.00-$2000.00 which about made me wanna have a stroke... ALL of which cannot be afforded on a 1 income family of 5................ Ive been out of work sense May 2nd, My Insurence coverage ended May 16th.
mailorder pharmacy's will fill 90 day supplies with Doc's orders. No Trouble.... never had the doc write out a script for 90 day supply unless i was using mailorder... havent for a long time tho.
My perscription of my Vicodin ES's , which i always get generic everything is for 180 a month, my insurence company would only allow for 150. which is what i take in a month, the extra 30 were just in case of breakthru or extra need.
but now with no insurence, and just starting a new job next week with no insurence until Aug 1st~ Im looking for anyway and everyway to get my med's filled as cheap as possible. :0)
Lilbit aka Linda
Cervial disk rupture at c5/c6.Rupture took bone spurs and embedded them into spinal cord. Cervical Spinal Fusion, then Fustla repair of spinal cord to seal hole left by bone spur removal.
Fibromyalgia
May 27, 2008 - 9:52am
#6
lilbit
Try going to a small mom and pop pharmacy instead of one of those big name chain pharmacys. Every pharmacy that you mentioned are all extremely expensive. For example I used to get #90 xanax 1mg filled at CVS. It cost $109 for generic. Eventually I was sick of paying that so I went to a local mom and pop and the price dropped to $19. A month and a half ago when I broke my ankle the Dr.s first script was for #40 lortab 7.5. When I got finished at the Drs office tha local mom &pop was closed for the day so I had to go to CVS and it cost $26. Next visit to the Dr I was RXed 120 lortab 7.5. Went to the mom&pop pharmacy and it cost $24. BTW, CVS filled them with Mallies and the mom&pop filled with watson. Leave the big name chain pharmacies alone if you do not have insurance.
May 27, 2008 - 10:28am
#7
I knew doctors could write
I knew doctors could write for 90 days if it is a mail order, but I didnt know they could write for 90 days on a normal script of a controlled substance. Maybe it is just caution, and that is why we have never (to my knowledge) filled a 90 day supply of a benzo or narcotic.
Thanks for the info solo, and by the way, I think the state you are thinking of is Mass.
May 28, 2008 - 8:13am
#8
Good News About My Perscriptions the new card and the cost.
Well I printed out my card for from the FreeDrugCard.Us Site... and took it to Giant Eagle, so i could get my fule perks too.... lol
anyways, the Doc put me back on plain soma instead of the soma codeine compound. without insurance the cost was $66.00 , with that card i printed offline, the cost went down to $16.83...........
OOOOOOOOOOhhhh so much better than the $200.00-$400.00 price ranges i was getting for the compound....
Thank You AGAIN Matt aka Pizzicato65 for pointing me in the right direction to that RX card.. :0)\
Lilbit aka Linda
Cervial disk rupture at c5/c6.Rupture took bone spurs and embedded them into spinal cord. Cervical Spinal Fusion, then Fustla repair of spinal cord to seal hole left by bone spur removal.
Fibromyalgia
May 28, 2008 - 12:10pm
#9
Pizzicato65 after I read
Pizzicato65 after I read your original post I was going to edit mine, to basically not repeat what you said. You can also get 90 day supplies at regular pharmacies though. Kroger and Kmart are actually giving people a discount to get 90 day supplies, but not on any controlled.
Also Ive gotten a more than 90 day supply of Lortab 10 at a local/smaller chain pharmacy. It wasnt a large quantity though, and it was only because the doctor wrote it wrong. She wrote Lortab10 one tab s.i.d #120 instead of q.i.d. So it actually made it a 120 day supply. For whatever reason when the pharmacy filled it, it was about half the price as normal, kinda shady since it was the same qty. The pharmacy didnt question me or have to call the doctor to verify the script, I wonder if its ok as long as the script isnt for more than a 6 months supply, since you can get 6 months worth of meds with once prescription (CIII and Lower)?
Anyways, Im glad that card saved you so much Linda! Im going to have to try it the next time I go to get my stuff filled. With the prices that those sites quote, I just figured it would be too good to be true.
June 24, 2008 - 12:19am
#10
Cant bring myself to present card to pharmacy
I am scared to present the card to the pharmacy, it is more work for them and I dont want them to get ticked at me...I need their help and if I am costing them money that isnt doing them anygood...I just dont want to seem like cheap to them...
(edited)
June 24, 2008 - 8:34am
#11
Show the card
Believe me, even w/the card they are still going to make GOOD money. I know for a fact that pharmacies pay pennies for drugs like hydrocodone. It costs me $32 for 120 watson 10/325. If they pay 20 cent for each one that would mean $24 for my rx, thus they still make $8 profit. My guess is that they have less that that in each pill. I Think about stuff like that and try to figure out what I end up paying per pill and the estimate what I think they have in each pill.
June 24, 2008 - 10:03am
#12
Large chain pharmacies have
Large chain pharmacies have scandalous mark-ups on some of their drugs which we have discussed before, but $8 might not even pay for the cost of dispensing your drug (time for counting pills, printing lable, record keeping, bottle cost, etc). Does Pizzicato know what his or her pharmacy considers the break even point per prescription?
Most of these prescription cards do not get you a lower price than you can get at a discount pharmacy, like Costco or some of the more honestly priced Mom and Pop's. The pharmacist at Kroger told me that the generic birth control pills "Sprintec" were sold below cost at $9, and I assumed he was talking about their wholesale drug cost.
June 24, 2008 - 10:59am
#13
Thats a good question. I
Thats a good question. I have no idea! lol. The pharmacies I have worked for have all been chain pharmacies, and there was never any talk of break-even prices. It may not be a good thing to use at a Mom/Pop type place, since they surely pay more wholesale than Walgreens/CVS, and breaking even would be more of a concern.
I have been using the card off and on for 2 years now, and I have never had a problem with anything. In fact, I am having problems with my insurance this month, so I used it to pick up my Roxi 15's this month, which ran me about $35 for 120, instead of the 80-90 they would usually be.
June 24, 2008 - 10:52pm
#14
NEW HAMPSHIRE
SOLO5010, New hampshire only allows 100 pills per RX, my good friend gets a few scripts like xanax 1mg 4 a dy # 120 has to get 2 scripts #60 each for 15 day supply. He gets oxycodone 30mg 6 a day for BT #180 gas to get 2 scripts #90 each. Also gets Percocet 10/325 ten yes ten a day #300 so he gets 3 scripts #100 each. Its a pain to some degree but it keeps down on over using your meds, diversion and so on, for him it works fine he doesnt mind. he goes to his dr appt and leaves with like 7 scripts all dated approatly. At first he use to get ticked but it keeps everyone up and up. Some of the other patients have to go in every 2 weeks or so to pick them up and some patients if the dr likes you will just mail the script tp the pharm and then you get that friendly call saying hi this is rite aid and your prescription is ready hahahahah. The only problem he every gets is teh #300 percocet 10\325 the DR mails 3 seperate scripts to the pharm and every 10 days he goes and gets them but the oharmacist thinks she is a dr and tells him you are already on 6 30mg oxycodone dio you really need 10 percocet 10/325 also and 4 1 mg xanax and ge said well let me cut your foot off and see what you need to keep the pain down. In my point of view I guess it has its pros and cons creates alot more paperwork for the Dr but keeps down on, over medicating, abusing, diversion and so on and to make matters worse New hampshire still has a huge prescription drug problem.
(edited)
June 25, 2008 - 8:16am
#15
I ALSO FOUND A CARD LIKE THIS
I am a member at BJs whole sale and i was walkin out the other day and they have like a little wall with travel info and other stuff on it, and they had this flyer for a discount rx card like the one mentioned in the OP. Its called "physicians rx care " discount card. And u dont have to use it at bjs coz my bjs closed their pharmacy, u just hafta find a participating RX that takes the card. I havent looked into it yet so I dont know the details, but it seems too good to be true. Though I had a card like this when I was living in Maine, but it was thru the state because i got denied for mainecare, which is like their medicare or aid , whatever the state ins is. since i got denied they atleast gave me this card for rxs and it helped A LOT for discounts, so im gonna go online to their site and see what its all about. if it is legit, anyone who shops at bjs could prob get it, i mean they all should have it displayed. I just dont see how u can pick up this piece of paper, and sign up and u have this card thats not even hard plastic, its thin cardboard, and automatically get an rx discount. i dont know how it all works. But hey if it saves me $ Ill take it!
I dont know that a doctor can write a prescription that will allow 3+ months worth at a time. Refills, yes, but I rx, with 500 tablets? Maybe I am wrong, but I have worked in a pharmacy for a while, and I have never seen more than 40 days worth of meds on one script. We fill 400-800 prescriptions a day too, so it is not like we don't see alot of scripts. Even mail order pharms cap the amount at a 3 month's supply.
Are you sure the card won't cover just a 60 or 90 count? Before I had insurance, I used an assistance card from I printed online, and it saved on average, 40-60% on my prescriptions, and they would cover any amount.
I just cant see a doctor be happy to give out that many abusable drugs out at once, especially with the DEA being out for blood.