Worth Looking At - Significant Discount Pricing On Prescription Medications

Jo C.

Off comes my Peer Volunteer hat.  

While I am NOT personally recommending this, I wanted to share a bit of interesting  news you may want to take a look at as I know from so many Postings written by Members that prescription costs have been a significant problem for many.

Billionaire Mark Cuban has been a critic of the extreme profit driven markup for prescription medications.  He has started a discount pharmacy and the discounted savings appear to be huge.  He states that pricing is set at the actual cost of each medication plus 15%.

It was was stunning for me to see pricing differences when doing average price comparisons that have been included on the actual prescription website for the meds they carry.

NOTE:  Though all seems to be valid, I suggest before venturing to use this pharmacy that you to first speak to your physician and perhaps even with your pharmacist.  

Here is the news blurb link:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/billionaire-mark-cubans-discounted-pharmacy-212053859.html

Here is the link directly to the pharmacy:

https://costplusdrugs.com/

Scroll down to, "view all conditions" and click on "dementia" for review of pricing for dementia meds that the carry.

J.

Emily 123

Thanks Jo--this was interesting.  Anyone tried this?

Michael Ellenbogen

That sound great!

Ed1937

Thank you Jo. I had forgotten about that site. They sure have a lot more medications now than they did not long ago.

Ed1937

Jo, I just looked on the site for glucose test strips. I can save about $17.00 on an order of 100 test strips vs. what I would pay at CVS even with a 20% discount. Exactly the same product.

JJ401

DH just received his first prescription from that site.  Memantine 10mg — 90 day supply — $17.

The cost at all local pharmacies would have been around $250 as his prescription plan has tiered drugs and rates this one as tier 3. Tier 3 has a deductible that has to be met each year. Even after meeting the deductible his cost would be over $100. So this is a huge savings.

When I mentioned Cost Plus Drugs to the neurologist, he said he’d never had anyone use it, but if I got him the information on how to send the script he’d gladly do it. And to be sure to let him know what I thought as if it were a good deal he’d recommend it to other patients. (I love this guy.)

The site has clear directions. It’s a little more work to set up your account than dropping off the prescription at your local pharmacy, but it was so worth it.

GwendolynD

Thank you for sharing this out, some of the discounts on the drug costs are amazing!

Joydean

JJ did that price of $17., did that include the shipping? Thank you.