Prescriptions

Would it be improper or a rule violation to ask which Algodones pharmacies are most reasonably priced.

Are their many pharmacies their?

We winter in the Casa Grande vicinity and would like to drive to Yuma, walk across the border to obtain reasonably priced meds.

Tooo bad they don't have mail order.

I get mine from www.alldaychemist.com . I can order a year's supply of my meds for what a 3-month co-pay would cost here in the states. There is a flat $25 shipping fee for whatever quantity you order. They don't handle narcotic meds though.

Ed_Gee wrote:

blkdodge wrote:
Where do ya'all get your prescriptions? DW was just issued a new prescription before she retired. Now that she has her own insurance and has to buy prescriptions is pretty outrageous. NO ITS PLAIN HIGHWAY ROBBERY!!!! For what she paid $5.00 a month for is now going to cost $400.00.

Do y'all have somewhere that you buy online or otherwise that I could check into for a better price.

I note that you are in Arizona? If so, have you considered Mexico? They will certainly honor your written Rx and their prices, as is usually the case for drugs purchased outside the U.S., are very low. Thousands of Americans and visiting Canadians take advantage of this when wintering in Arizona.....

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we do that every year. Glasses, meds, I even heard a friend of ours gets a pedicure pretty reasonable. Haircuts $3 too.

Just spoke to several people back from Algodones today ....Feb. 19, 2015, ....... You can get what you want in Los Algodones, Mexico WITHOUT a prescription.....at very cheap prices. I was surprised to find out strong US DEA drugs like Percocet and Torodol were availabe. ( great for Kidney stone pain ). SIX MONTH supply seems to be the limit for US Border entry.
Only thing US Customs seems to get excited over are steroids.

Have you discussed the new prescription with the Dr?
Maybe there is a different drug.
What is the drug/
My wife had to take some odd drugs. The Dr. was able to change the drug. It was hard to get at some locations, narcotic.

Also try HealthTrans Access

HealthTrans Access

Dakota98 wrote:
OK, I just went to GoodRX and checked one of my medications.

Now, according to all pharmacies there is NOT a generic available for this medication in the States.

At GoodRX the best price I could find was $224.35 for 30-tablets / non-generic

I've been purchasing this med in a Generic for the past 7-years and from a single supplier online & pay $89.89 for 90-Tablets

GO Figure :h

GoodRX prices are higher than the store actually charges for example my DW is on a med that Walgreen's gives her for about $90.00 for 60 tabs, that price is lower than any other in town including Walmart. However GOOD RX shows the price at Walgreen's at about $160.00 and CVS being he lowest by about $10.00. I had done my research and went to each store personally to get the price. SO I THINK GOODRX is not so good at pricing.

Again LOS ALGODONES is your answer

As a retired pharmacist I would suggest that you go to an independent pharmacy and speak with the owner pharmacist about your medications. The chains often sell the top 100 or 200 medications at deep discount (not below cost as that is unlawful in most states) but certainly really cheap. In exchange they make a substantial profit on other medications. A few older medications which have been generic for years have been reviewed by the FDA because the current required levels of testing were never preformed. These drugs were then removed from the market until a company, any company, spent the millions required to bring the tests to current levels. That company was then given the exclusive on the new Branded product.
As for your $5 co-pay: In my humble opinion that was the beginning of this whole mess in the first place. When I entered pharmacy patients paid the full price of their medication. The national average price was below $4 per prescription. Companies were hesitant to charge to much for new medications because the public would not accept the expense. Keflex, by Lilly was the very first medication in the USA to break the $1 per dose ceiling. When insurance companies starting paying for the medication and the patient only paid a co-pay the cost of medication became hidden from the public. Now drugs could be $100 or more but no one complained since they only paid $5. Ads on TV and in print encouraged people to take the new drugs "covered by most insurance plans." Now new drugs, like the medication for Hep-C, although life saving and life changing, are coming to market at thousands of dollars per dose. $80,000 for a course of therapy. Justified by the fact that $80,000 is less than the insurance company would have to pay for lifetime treatment of an active Hep-C patient with pending liver failure.
Just a little history.
Good Luck

OK, I just went to GoodRX and checked one of my medications.

Now, according to all pharmacies there is NOT a generic available for this medication in the States.

At GoodRX the best price I could find was $224.35 for 30-tablets / non-generic

I've been purchasing this med in a Generic for the past 7-years and from a single supplier online & pay $89.89 for 90-Tablets

GO Figure :h

GoodRX

GoodRX Is Legit

Also, all of these numbers are legit

Have the Pharmacist run these numbers (the PharmD will know what they mean)

BIN: 005947
GRP: 2781DAB
PCN: CLAIMCR

Also maybe these numbers:

BIN: 003585
PCN: ASPROD1
GRP: AME08
Member: GRX2270515

Also try these numbers too:

BIN: 005947
GRP: 9739VBN
PCN: CLAIMCR
Member: BNZ032725

and also try this group of numbers:

BIN: 009265
GRP: EDC3304
PCN: AG
Member: 7579539

My advice, is to take these numbers to pharmacy, when they're not too busy, to enable the Pharmacist a chance to run these sets of numbers. One of the combos that I've listed here will save you substantial money.