Different pharmacies mean different prescription price?

Charlie Brown · Post by **Charlie Brown** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:05 am

I thought I heard somewhere if you go to different pharmacies for the same medicine/prescription/dose the cost is different. Is this true?

Example: A prescription for Zoloft 20 mg will cost, say, $35 in CVS and in Duane Reade--for the same medicine/dose--it costs $50.00.

Thanks.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 12:56 am

True !!!! Shop around !

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 6:53 am

Really?? I thought it was the type of insurance you had?? If that is the case than maybe I can find my Lexapro cheaper at another pharmacy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:18 am

All pharmacies have different prices,my question is when can we live without the meds???

Originally posted by Nole:
Really?? I thought it was the type of insurance you had?? If that is the case than maybe I can find my Lexapro cheaper at another pharmacy.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:14 pm

Originally posted by Sit-N-Spin:
True !!!! Shop around !

Wow! I thought that was the case just recently when I got a refill on BP medicine. I had before Oxford and the cost was $15. With Aetna, my new carrier, it's $44.00! I just about had a heart attack when the clerk told me the price.

Thanks everyone.

hopehound · Post by **hopehound** » Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:36 pm

I'm not sure about the anti-anxiety meds, but I found that you can mail order meds from Costco and you don't have to be a member to use the pharmacy.

I looked for my Lyme Disease meds and for my prescripton, WITH my insurance, it was $135 for 20 days worth. At Costco, WITHOUT my insurance it's $150 for the full 30 days.

The nice thing is, you can go to their site and look up the price of the prescription by strength, # of pills, ect.

Take care,
Ocean