Jeanne Pinder
“The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing,” Marshall Allen writes at ProPublica. “Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates — possibly toxic, probably worthless. But to Lee Cantrell, who helps […]
Jeanne Pinder
Summary: What’s the prescription drug that’s most searched for on Google in your state? Look here: a fascinating tale of who’s looking to kick smoking with Chantix (Montana, North Dakota, Iowa) or have an erection with Viagra (California) or lower blood pressure with Exforge (Texas, Louisiana, South Carolina. Utah: Nuvaring contraceptives. And New York? Truvada, […]
Jeanne Pinder
SUMMARY: “Americans with chronic illnesses—who are expected to be among the biggest beneficiaries of the health law—face widely varying out-of-pocket drug costs that could be obscured on the new insurance exchanges.” There is a lot of great detail in this Melinda Beck piece from the Wall Street Journal about how drug co-pays will […]
Jeanne Pinder
New entry in the prescription drug comparison-shopping market: prescriptionbluebook.com. The front page says: “We provide the wholesale cost (the price pharmacies pay) on your prescription medications. A yearly subscription to PrescriptionBlueBook.com reveals the wholesale cost on thousands of brand name and generic drugs for you, your family and even your pets! “PrescriptionBlueBook.com also provides the […]
Jeanne Pinder
SUMMARY: How much do birth-control pills cost? Well, that depends. Click on our cool interactive map at the right and take a look. Keep reading for more tips and advice, or… CLICK HERE FOR PRICES
Jeanne Pinder
We get excited about price information over here at Clearhealthcosts.com, and we like to share our wonky excitement with you. Here’s a site where Medicare’s prices for drugs covered under Part B of Medicare are collected. The current data set is from April 2013. Chemotherapy drugs, vaccines, steroids, antibiotics, vitamins, painkillers and the like. These […]
Jeanne Pinder
People trying to save money on birth-control pills and other medications may look at online pharmacies — or at buying overseas (or across the border). Online pharmacies — to use, or not to use? We thought online pharmacies might be an important player. But most of the women we spoke with about buying birth-control pills […]
Elizabeth Celms
As we wrote in an earlier blog post, when you need to fill a prescription, it pays to shop around. What do birth control pills cost? Prices can vary a little or a lot. Compare big box pharmacies, such as Rite Aid, CVS, Costco or Walgreens, with the little independent guys. The same is true […]
Elizabeth Celms
Summary: Birth control pills can come at very different prices. Sometimes they’re actually more expensive if you have insurance! Covered by insurance or not, there are a few things you need to know about how pricing works, and where you’ll pay a lot or a little. It’s different depending on your insurance, on your pill […]
David Voran, M.D.
Summary: We hear a lot from doctors who see the problems of the health care system from a perspective that’s often surprisingly revelatory. Occasionally, we meet someone who’s a good doctor, writer and thinker all at the same time. Dr. David Voran is one; he wrote this for us about the problems his patients encounter […]
