Paying Cash at Urgent Care
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@Dashrender said:
@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@NetworkNerd said:
That's when I remembered Samaritan sent us a prescription card. It came in quite handy and reduced the medicine price by about $100. So if you do end up signing up for something like this (heathcare sharing network), use the prescription card.
WTF? I've always wondered how these cards work? why/how do you instantly get $100 off. The assumption is that Samaritan isn't paying CVS, but then again, maybe they are.
I wonder if you could just make up a discount card and get the discounts. I know a lot of hotels work that way, they don't have a central program and just do whatever a coupon says.
This discount card had a group number and says it is administered by EnvisionRxOptions but has the Samaritan logo on it.
Can I get a copy and see if they'll apply it to my account to?
lolWhat's it worth to you?
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@NetworkNerd said:
@Dashrender said:
@NetworkNerd said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@NetworkNerd said:
That's when I remembered Samaritan sent us a prescription card. It came in quite handy and reduced the medicine price by about $100. So if you do end up signing up for something like this (heathcare sharing network), use the prescription card.
WTF? I've always wondered how these cards work? why/how do you instantly get $100 off. The assumption is that Samaritan isn't paying CVS, but then again, maybe they are.
I wonder if you could just make up a discount card and get the discounts. I know a lot of hotels work that way, they don't have a central program and just do whatever a coupon says.
This discount card had a group number and says it is administered by EnvisionRxOptions but has the Samaritan logo on it.
Can I get a copy and see if they'll apply it to my account to?
lolWhat's it worth to you?
rummages through pockets: A pen, a stick of chewing cum, and 83 cents.
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Check out http://www.goodrx.com/ It has been pretty decent at reducing some prescription prices.
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Just checked darn my inhaler is still $280 using that.
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@Minion-Queen said:
Just checked darn my inhaler is still $280 using that.
ProAir is pretty cheap at only $60
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@Dashrender said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just checked darn my inhaler is still $280 using that.
ProAir is pretty cheap at only $60
Is that as good as Con Air?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Dashrender said:
@Minion-Queen said:
Just checked darn my inhaler is still $280 using that.
ProAir is pretty cheap at only $60
Is that as good as Con Air?
wow, you had to bring that stinker of a movie into this?
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Symbicort stupid thing is expensive!
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Advair was stupid expensive too - like $450 a month.
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@Dashrender Yeah the Symbicort is that much without insurance too. I could get it in Africa for $1
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@Minion-Queen said:
@Dashrender Yeah the Symbicort is that much without insurance too. I could get it in Africa for $1
Right so I had a discussion with a colleague about this.
Why is it so cheap over there? compared to here. his reasoning is that the USA is subsidizing the rest of the world. His claim, believe really, is that US companies spend millions/billions inventing drugs, the US public is who actually pays for this, and the rest of the world rides the back of the American who foots the high bill, and might only pay the actual manufacturing costs of the drug, but non of research costs, Gov't payoff - whoops I mean drug trial costs, etc.
Thoughts?
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@Dashrender said:
@Minion-Queen said:
@Dashrender Yeah the Symbicort is that much without insurance too. I could get it in Africa for $1
Right so I had a discussion with a colleague about this.
Why is it so cheap over there? compared to here. his reasoning is that the USA is subsidizing the rest of the world. His claim, believe really, is that US companies spend millions/billions inventing drugs, the US public is who actually pays for this, and the rest of the world rides the back of the American who foots the high bill, and might only pay the actual manufacturing costs of the drug, but non of research costs, Gov't payoff - whoops I mean drug trial costs, etc.
Thoughts?
He is right on some accounts. Not all medications are given by the US, malaria drugs, TB drugs, HIV etc. those are funded by the US. However all the others are usually purchased from European countries where they are much cheaper. I think my inhalers were coming from either France or Germany.
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@Dashrender said:
@Minion-Queen said:
@Dashrender Yeah the Symbicort is that much without insurance too. I could get it in Africa for $1
Right so I had a discussion with a colleague about this.
Why is it so cheap over there? compared to here. his reasoning is that the USA is subsidizing the rest of the world. His claim, believe really, is that US companies spend millions/billions inventing drugs, the US public is who actually pays for this, and the rest of the world rides the back of the American who foots the high bill, and might only pay the actual manufacturing costs of the drug, but non of research costs, Gov't payoff - whoops I mean drug trial costs, etc.
Thoughts?
I think, and there is some evidence to support it, that most advances in medical science have come out of the public sector. A lot of the drugs we use now have come out of NIH funded grants to public universities and labs. From one report I read, I'll have to find it, most of the revenue from drugs goes to marketing and sales, a small margin goes to R&D.
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I have no clue where the money goes. I know that the BS supplies that we used to get all the time, pens, notepads, desk toys, etc - those are more or less gone - not allowed apparently anymore.
Of course spending who knows how much on lunches/dinners, etc still happens - the claim is that that is the only way a doctor will stop long enough to talk to a drug rep about a new drug. who knows if that's true or not.And talking about universities - man those places are perhaps the most corrupt of all!
