Vet Prescription Prices
My Lab recently had to have eye surgery and had it done at an opthamology clinic. I expected the surgery to be expensive but what I didn't expect was the incredible price for very small (0.5 ml) bott...
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Eye medications are really a sore subject with me right now. There are repeated shortages/backorders and prices have skyrocketed over the last two years. Triple antibiotic ophthalmic ointments and drops that used to cost me $3-4 are now 15-20 if you can get them. Very often we have to get the brand name meds that are really $$$.
We will mostly write scripts for ophthalmics, but just last week had a client quoted a price of $99 at a pharmacy (don't remember which) but they opted to wait for a day to see if our supply came in.
Some pharmacies have purchasing power and stocks of medications that help mitigate the fluctuations. Then also they sell at a loss to get you in to their store to buy what ever else you might pick up.
Just be aware that your vet is probably not ripping you off in this instance, it is just a really volatile, unpredictable market.
Doug, DVM
We will mostly write scripts for ophthalmics, but just last week had a client quoted a price of $99 at a pharmacy (don't remember which) but they opted to wait for a day to see if our supply came in.
Some pharmacies have purchasing power and stocks of medications that help mitigate the fluctuations. Then also they sell at a loss to get you in to their store to buy what ever else you might pick up.
Just be aware that your vet is probably not ripping you off in this instance, it is just a really volatile, unpredictable market.
Doug, DVM
