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Drug Discount Cards & Pharma Mfrs Drug Assistance Programs
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stevez24 said:
on February 8, 2009 02:01 PM ET
As a Pharmacist I see too many people paying the usual and customary retail price for their prescriptions. At A minimum they should be using a Free Drug Discount Card like card.drugassistant.com. Medicare part D does not cover Nerve/anxiety medications ( xanax, diazepam, etc) , prescription cough medications, sleeping pills (ambien, temazepam, triazolam etc) or drugs for erectile dysfunction (ED) (Viagra, Cialis, Levitra). Use the Drug Assistant Discount card for those prescriptions. Every pharmacy can maintain more than one insurance/discount card on file for you. Ask them to use the discount card, match a $4 program price for your meds. Visit card.drugassistant.com and see the tools available for pricing. Print a card -PDF and use it immediately. No registration, no fees, no financial guidelines or citizenship. Just print and save $$$$. Steve RPh |
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Thought I would toss in my experiences with these drug discount cards. I was standing in the pharmacy line at a local Walmart and the lady ahead of me got her scripts - $116.00 for one med for one month! The guy behind the counter asked her if she had insurance - nope. He told her to wait a minute and left. When he returned he had a huge grin on his face. He handed her a prescription discount card and told her to keep it and use it every time she got her meds. She asked why. He showed her the new invoice - $16.00! She saved $100.00 because of that card and the generosity of the employee! So, I had to get one for myself. Yes it was free and I just printed it out. Here is where I got it: www.savonrx.com
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myfreeprescriptiondiscountcard.com is a good site. You print the card off the site, and it is widely accepted. No need to give out any personal information. The site also has a pharmacy locator to find the nearest participating pharmacy, and will tell you the price that will be charged. This card works well for any prescription not covered by an insurance policy, any for some prescriptions with large co-pays. It even covers prescriptions for your pets.
www.card.drugassistant.com will allow you to price the prescription at over 57,000 pharmacy locations in addition to looking up the price you'll pay. Also, www.medtipster.com will allow you to see the "retail program prices" in any zipcode.
Steve RPh
The same is true for the Drug Assistant Discount Card= It has a pharmacy locator, pricing tool for every pharmacy (over 57000 locations), a mail order option, NO registration NO citizenship Patient demographics secured. there are over 47 million uninsured or underinssured people in the US. As a Pharmacist, I routinely encourage people to use the DrugAssistant Discount Card. I will mail a hard copy to anyone that requests one.
Steve RPh
These free discount cards are great - I know that Banker's Life sells something like this for $50 but the free ones are just as good.
Another card, which is my favorite is www.RxCardPlus.com. What I like about this card's website is that you can check the pricing of just about any drug store in the country by zip code. For example Walgreens prices regionally so a Walgreens near your house may price drugs higher than one another block down the street. So when you go to www.RxCardPlus.com you can look up each of these Walgreen's and see which is cheaper and then your card discount is based on the cheaper price if you choose to go to the lower priced Walgreens. Great money saving feature.
