Prescription drug coupons

[Kernopelli]

I have had back problems for about 6 years and require some pretty expensive maintenance drugs to get along. I have good insurance but our copays on name brands have slowly increased over the last few years. I was complaining to my doctor and he gave me a discount card for my medication...$50 off each refill ( good toward copay) which made my scripts free. Sure wish he had done this sooner. I thought about this and got online to see if this card was available to anyone and sure enough it was. We decided to check on my wife's meds and coupons or discount cards were available for hers as well. We checked on our in laws meds and theirs had coupons available too. So far we have found coupons for all the brand name meds we have searched for. I am shocked that these coupons and discount cards are so prevalent. Most of them can be printed right at home and even though some of them "look kind of hokey" , they are always accepted. They have saved us about $250/month in copays and basically made our regular monthly meds free. Anyone taking name brands needs to google the drug name and "coupon" or "discount" and see if they can find some savings. Just thought I would pass this along.

 

[dmccarty]

Good to know these coupons work. I just printed out some drug coupons from a coupon website and I really have been wondering if they are going to work. The website is legitimate but the coupon was for quite a bit of money.

Later,
Dan

 

[LMTC]

I too was surprised to find some out there. I had no idea such things were available. Do share if you found a particularly good one. I found $10 off/month on a co-pay or pay of $25 or more for Lipitor, $15 off for 35 or more, and one for Benicar that I'm not sure I understand....the conditions seem to have been written by a law student.

I also have heard from someone I might know, that some rx can be bought from Australia/NZ or India, mfd by the same companies we know and love here, for lots less. SIMK had some pricing that was less than the copay on my policy for some meds ($50/3 months, soon to be $75). I know I have checked into the legalities and it appears that if one has a written script for the med, one can buy it anywhere.

 

[tglass]

I'de like to hear more. Haven't found any coupons for lipitor and sure not any that will work with ins. with a co-pay. Everything I've read say's it's not legal to purchase from another country and then the worry of is this the real drug or a sugar pill with the mfgr. label on the capsule. Hope to hear more on this subject.

 

[LMTC]

"Everything I've read"...I don't mean to be sarcastic, sincerely....but there is a lot of info about a lot of things that is just plain wrong. We've all seen examples at the highest level of MSM that just plain got things wrong as well. Personal use, prescribed by a US doc, you can get your meds where you choose. Why couldn't you? I'm not talking about ordering RX from elsewhere for which you do NOT have a prescription....possession of that med could then be an issue.

Who's to say what you get at pickyourpharmacyname here is real? Pricing on real meds in those countries is just plain cheap. Now picking the right supplier is part of the issue...just like in anything, plenty of scam artists out there. I have no dog in this fight, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time presenting evidence. Suffice it to say experience has shown me there are providers selling real meds for lots less. This is a factor too....many meds that are restricted to RX here are OTC in other countries. SIMK has a script from their doc for Allegra....their insurance does not cover it, and the cost is app. $40/month. It is OTC in Oz, around $15-18 for a month's supply. Buy 6 months worth to spread the shipping cost and still end up with under $25/month in it buying directly from a licensed pharmacy down under in blister packs. Not sure I see a tremendous risk there.

And here's the lipitor card/coupon. I just googled "Lipitor coupon". My mail order script company will not take the card, but the local pharmacy says they will take it and apply it to my copay. Policy may vary with insurer and pharmacy.

 

[Skyco]

Timely thread- today I was prescribed Azasite, an eye antibiotic. That stuff is about $80 for a tiny bottle that contains, according to its maker who I called, about 20 drops. Holy cow $4 a drop:shocked:

Looked online at their site and downloaded a $20 coupon. That will help but still...

But here is the rub..I can get the cost down considerably to about $1.50 a drop if I use my employer's mail order prescription plan... but the eye doc gave me a small sample size that computes to only contain about 5 drops- and that will not last long enough to allow the mail order pharmacy to send me the stuff at the better price...

Oh and before I knew the stuff was $4 a drop the sample when opened burped a good $10 worth out when the cap was removed


As for ordering from another country- the last year or so of my Airedale's life we were ordering a drug for Cushing's Disease from England for her on the vets advise. The drug wasn't FDA approved in this country, had no problem getting it though, just expensive. I've also found that sometimes some drugs that are used in both animals and humans can be bought OTC if you say it is for your animal....

Another drug I'm prescibed I understand was $60 a month when it was exclusively made by a small company. Then they were bought out by a big pharmaceautical company and price is now $300 a month as they are the exclusive US provider....and apparently are much greedier than the previous producer....nice.

 

[LMTC]

Azasite....azithromycin 250mg, $28.00 for 18

Apparently in pill form from this source.


20 drops per millileter, so $50/ml = 2.50/drop. Found one place in Canada at $50/ml. Not cheap, but less than the $80 you were quoted.

There are often other options if one knows where to look and is willing to spend the time looking.

 

[Skyco]

Thanks for looking but Azasite is only an opthalmic solution with no generic available. While it contains azithromycin it isn't the oral form, has to go directly into the affected eye unfortunately.
The $80 price is local, as I mentioned I can get it cheaper mail order through my insurance, but can't wait for the time it takes to get here...so they kinda got me over a barrel

 

[JimWalch]

I looked for a coupon for my new chemo drug, Tasigna that I take for CML (Chronic-Myelogenous-Leukemia). No luck I take four a day @ $182.00 each pill. That痴 $265,720.00 a year! The rest of my life. But I have good ins. that pays most of it. My co pay is $260.00 a year. I don't think I will complain about not having a coupon.

 

[tglass]

What about plavix? Has anyone found a discount or generic for it? To my knowledge there is none. Is it leagal to buy a prescription from another country? I feel I have to keep working at my age to keep the medical/prescription insurance before age 65. Going on 60 I wanted to retire at 62 with the health problems I have now I don't see an option.