I have been getting my prescription for my eyes filled at our local Costco recently. Their price and the price at a grocery store pharmacy usually runs between $11- $12 for a 30 day supply. This is their every day price before any insurance, and is for newly available generic version of the medication that had run closer to $100 per bottle in the non-generic.
I had been thinking about switching to Wal-Mart, since my new insurance will be through Humana with a Wal-Mart partnership, and certainly as a Humana member I should expect good prices at Wal-Mart. I asked, and the price of the same medication at Wal-Mart runs about $60. I asked- are you sure that is the generic? Yep. How much for the non-generic? - Around $102 or so. (It may have been more. I was in shock.) If you have insurance, this is what you would pay until you met your deductable, and then there would be a discount price depending on your plan. OK, any idea why I can go to at least two other pharmacies in town and get the same thing for $12 or less without having met my deductable? Nope. The prices are what the prices are.
Yes they are. It definitely pays to shop around, insurance or not. Maybe she was wrong. I would think though that noticing my reaction to the high price that she had double checked at least that much. Definitely a rip-off.
