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Post by mellyw on Aug 2, 2019 1:20:41 GMT
The Birdhouse Lady , I too am all for cheaper meds. Two of my girls have a huge bag of meds they take for their heart and other issues. Now I am gaining my own bag. My back never really has hurt; only a tad. It's the buttocks, behind the knee, calf, and foot. From my knee down, it is mostly numb. Doctor put me on gabapentin yesterday so hoping it helps. I am seeing a neurosuregon on Monday and then supposed to have a spinal injection on Wednesday. I am praying the meds works so I am skip the injection for now. Since this is life-long now, I want to go as conservatively now as I can get by with. Did get my handicap tags though yesterday. I am too young for that. I don't know why I say that because two of my girls have had handicap tags since about age 20. Hope your daughter is well! I’m pretty sure you’re retired military too, Patter. I never thought to use Good RX with Tri-Care. I’ll pay attention now! I so hope the Gabapentin helps you. I’ve had great success with it for nerve issues. I don’t have back issues, but do have advanced degenerative disc disease in my neck. I take the Gabapentin for two other issues, but suspect it helps with my neck too.
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 2, 2019 3:12:42 GMT
Question: am I correct in the fact that you are just paying this out of pocket and not getting any credit for the purchase toward your deductible? Our school district recently dumped our great insurance and put us on a high deductible plan. I've had terrible sticker shock with prescriptions for my daughter. I think they are cheaper with Good RX, but going that route means I don't make any progress on meeting my deductible, correct? Depends on how your plan works. In our case, we pay everything out of pocket up to our deductible. Medical claims are submitted to them first, so they have a running total of our deductible, and then we get billed by the provider. Prescriptions however are all paid for out of pocket (they will run our insurance for contracted rates though). If/when we hit our deductible we submit them and get reimbursed. We could submit them every time but there is no point unless we will get reimbursed. You may be able to submit those yourself and it might be worth checking into.
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Post by AmandaA on Aug 2, 2019 3:22:31 GMT
We really don't have any prescriptions now that we'd need to use this for, but I have a dumb question in case we do in the future. Our doctors always send our prescriptions directly to our pharmacy on file. Do you ask your doctor not to do that, find out what they're prescribing, price shop with Good RX and THEN tell your physician where to send the prescription? Or do you ask for an old school written prescription? Just trying to understand the flow of the process. Depends on what it is. If someone is sick, had surgery, etc. and we need it asap I will just have them send it to our preferred pharmacy. I will always double check against GoodRx there though if I know it isn’t going to be an inexpensive generic... like when we needed Tamiflu this past winter. For other things, like my annual scripts for my migraines, I will request a paper copy and then check prices at home before I go fill it. My doctors have always been very accommodating when I request paper copies.
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Post by Patter on Aug 2, 2019 12:02:02 GMT
Do any of you use Good Rx? Man, I have been comparing prices all year, and I am always amazed! Here is yesterday's example: Medication Retail: $162 Insurance Price: $47 Good Rx Price: $18.04 Guess which one I went with? Crazy! It's a pain to always check but worth it in the end. So do you have to basically go to a different pharmacy every month? How does that work? Does the prescription have to get transferred? Thank you. I have not gone to another pharmacy so I can't answer that. I assume it would have to be transferred.
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Post by dazeepetals on Aug 2, 2019 22:28:41 GMT
So I'll give a few bits of information about Good Rx from the pharmacy standpoint and leave everyone to make their own decisions.
First, by agrees to use Good Rx you are basically giving them permission to use your information to sell for their profit. "We use remarketing with Google and other remarketing providers to advertise online and offline. We may place cookies, tags, pixels, SDKs and other tracking technology on your computer or other devices, or otherwise collect your personal information to assist Google, Facebook, other third parties, or GoodRx to feed advertisements or to send direct mail campaigns to you based on your past visits to GoodRx and other websites; and we may also allow other third parties, including Google, to do so as well." Just be aware.
Second, Good Rx is wreaking havoc on pharmacies, especially independent small pharmacies (i.e. anything NOT CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc). They pharmacy has to pay a fee to GoodRx and they often reimburse less than or just at what the pharmacy pays to acquire the drug from the manufacturer. I wouldn't be surprised if many pharmacies start refusing to use them.
Finally, because they are not a PBM (prescription benefit manager) and you insurance isn't being used for the claim, no money is being applied to your deductible. In addition, your PBM helps track prescriptions especially if you use multiple pharmacies. Many times, it will bring up drug interactions between medications when you've had something filled elsewhere so that the pharmacist can be aware of it. If you use the same pharmacy, most pharmacies can see all those prescriptions and run up to date drug interaction reports, however if they are not aware of a medication filled at a different company (PBMs would alert them to this) they may not catch a potentially bad interactions. Your pharmacist can save your life IF they have all the information needed.
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Post by stormycat on Aug 3, 2019 0:37:16 GMT
So I'll give a few bits of information about Good Rx from the pharmacy standpoint and leave everyone to make their own decisions. First, by agrees to use Good Rx you are basically giving them permission to use your information to sell for their profit. "We use remarketing with Google and other remarketing providers to advertise online and offline. We may place cookies, tags, pixels, SDKs and other tracking technology on your computer or other devices, or otherwise collect your personal information to assist Google, Facebook, other third parties, or GoodRx to feed advertisements or to send direct mail campaigns to you based on your past visits to GoodRx and other websites; and we may also allow other third parties, including Google, to do so as well." Just be aware. Second, Good Rx is wreaking havoc on pharmacies, especially independent small pharmacies (i.e. anything NOT CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc). They pharmacy has to pay a fee to GoodRx and they often reimburse less than or just at what the pharmacy pays to acquire the drug from the manufacturer. I wouldn't be surprised if many pharmacies start refusing to use them. Finally, because they are not a PBM (prescription benefit manager) and you insurance isn't being used for the claim, no money is being applied to your deductible. In addition, your PBM helps track prescriptions especially if you use multiple pharmacies. Many times, it will bring up drug interactions between medications when you've had something filled elsewhere so that the pharmacist can be aware of it. If you use the same pharmacy, most pharmacies can see all those prescriptions and run up to date drug interaction reports, however if they are not aware of a medication filled at a different company (PBMs would alert them to this) they may not catch a potentially bad interactions. Your pharmacist can save your life IF they have all the information needed. I follow a pharmacists blog who talks about this very thing. It’s one of those if it sounds to good to be true..... I am so very, very happy and thankful that my sons meds are all covered by insurance and that I have a great pharmacy team who really look out for him.
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Post by moodyblue on Aug 3, 2019 1:59:29 GMT
So I'll give a few bits of information about Good Rx from the pharmacy standpoint and leave everyone to make their own decisions. First, by agrees to use Good Rx you are basically giving them permission to use your information to sell for their profit. "We use remarketing with Google and other remarketing providers to advertise online and offline. We may place cookies, tags, pixels, SDKs and other tracking technology on your computer or other devices, or otherwise collect your personal information to assist Google, Facebook, other third parties, or GoodRx to feed advertisements or to send direct mail campaigns to you based on your past visits to GoodRx and other websites; and we may also allow other third parties, including Google, to do so as well." Just be aware. Second, Good Rx is wreaking havoc on pharmacies, especially independent small pharmacies (i.e. anything NOT CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc). They pharmacy has to pay a fee to GoodRx and they often reimburse less than or just at what the pharmacy pays to acquire the drug from the manufacturer. I wouldn't be surprised if many pharmacies start refusing to use them. Finally, because they are not a PBM (prescription benefit manager) and you insurance isn't being used for the claim, no money is being applied to your deductible. In addition, your PBM helps track prescriptions especially if you use multiple pharmacies. Many times, it will bring up drug interactions between medications when you've had something filled elsewhere so that the pharmacist can be aware of it. If you use the same pharmacy, most pharmacies can see all those prescriptions and run up to date drug interaction reports, however if they are not aware of a medication filled at a different company (PBMs would alert them to this) they may not catch a potentially bad interactions. Your pharmacist can save your life IF they have all the information needed. Those are all legitimate points, but for many people using Good Rx, the cost of the prescription without the lower price may simply be out of their reach. They can’t be concerned about the privacy factor or the harm to the pharmacy or the risk of interactions - they just know they need their med and this is the way they can get it at a cost they can afford. It’s fine if they can CHOOSE to pay the higher price and do, but some can’t, especially with a huge difference in price.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 3, 2019 2:37:37 GMT
THAT is a $29.00 savings on ONE Rx. So I'll give a few bits of information about Good Rx from the pharmacy standpoint and leave everyone to make their own decisions. I understand your position, but people need their meds... Not everyone can can afford $10 let alone $29 ... but as originally stated the without ins cost was $162 which would have made it a $144.00 savings... Who can afford that for more then on Rx?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 3:41:40 GMT
What info can they sell -- you don't have to give any personal info to use them?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 3, 2019 4:03:49 GMT
What info can they sell -- you don't have to give any personal info to use them? Could the pharmacists be passing the info back to those who issue the coupons? (no accusations, just asking)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 4:41:46 GMT
DD31 has no insurance, she's bipolar, and has used Good Rx for a few years now with much success. Some meds are free at her clinic, and some are just so much cheaper through Good Rx!!!! Always good to check it out!
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Post by Patter on Aug 3, 2019 10:18:44 GMT
So I'll give a few bits of information about Good Rx from the pharmacy standpoint and leave everyone to make their own decisions. First, by agrees to use Good Rx you are basically giving them permission to use your information to sell for their profit. "We use remarketing with Google and other remarketing providers to advertise online and offline. We may place cookies, tags, pixels, SDKs and other tracking technology on your computer or other devices, or otherwise collect your personal information to assist Google, Facebook, other third parties, or GoodRx to feed advertisements or to send direct mail campaigns to you based on your past visits to GoodRx and other websites; and we may also allow other third parties, including Google, to do so as well." Just be aware. Second, Good Rx is wreaking havoc on pharmacies, especially independent small pharmacies (i.e. anything NOT CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc). They pharmacy has to pay a fee to GoodRx and they often reimburse less than or just at what the pharmacy pays to acquire the drug from the manufacturer. I wouldn't be surprised if many pharmacies start refusing to use them. Finally, because they are not a PBM (prescription benefit manager) and you insurance isn't being used for the claim, no money is being applied to your deductible. In addition, your PBM helps track prescriptions especially if you use multiple pharmacies. Many times, it will bring up drug interactions between medications when you've had something filled elsewhere so that the pharmacist can be aware of it. If you use the same pharmacy, most pharmacies can see all those prescriptions and run up to date drug interaction reports, however if they are not aware of a medication filled at a different company (PBMs would alert them to this) they may not catch a potentially bad interactions. Your pharmacist can save your life IF they have all the information needed. Thank you so much for this information. I appreciate it; however, I will continue to use GoodRx. I do worry about the small pharmacy as my good friend and my neighbors are all pharmacists (husband/wife). The hubby owns a wonderful pharmacy. He offers incredibly low prices, will bring my meds or anything I need to me, and is great. His wife works for another small pharmacy in a small town. I support him when I can but his hours are limited so I tend to end up at Walgreen's. I probably wouldn't use GoodRx at my neighbor's pharmacy. I do care about the little guy. But the rest (interactions and information) don't worry me. I always make sure I ask if they don't have my history. I also know my info is already out there. What else are they gaining that they don't already have. LOL!
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Post by dazeepetals on Aug 3, 2019 15:25:24 GMT
What info can they sell -- you don't have to give any personal info to use them? When the coupon is used in the pharmacy it is linked to your information, just like insurance is. Every submission to insurance or coupons will send your basic information (name, DOB, address, etc) via electronic pathway to the company that the pharmacy has inputted to submit the claim to. GoodRx isn't a coupon in the sense that it's a coupon we just scan at the register and you get a discount. It's inputted just like insurance information then submitted electronically which then brings back the charge.
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Post by dazeepetals on Aug 3, 2019 15:38:56 GMT
Patter , revirdsuba99 , moodyblueJust wanted to clarify, I haven't worked in retail for almost 15 years so the information I gave was from colleagues. I don't have an opinion on the matter so please don't think I am bashing the program or people that utilize it. I absolutely think patients should be able to get prescriptions for less, but I want to make sure it's done safely. The system on a whole needs fixed and while these bandaids help, they don't fix the underlying problem. I've given my patient's GoodRx before for meds they absolutely needed and they simply couldn't afford. I've also worked exhaustively with drug companies for compassionate use programs to get my leukemia patients critical drugs. My aim was only to provide some additional information so that you as the patient can make a fully informed decision and also to know about the lack of drug interaction check that can come up when using these programs at different pharmacies. Ultimately, I want patients to get their meds safely.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Aug 3, 2019 16:44:27 GMT
My aim was only to provide some additional information so that you as the patient can make a fully informed decision and also to know about the lack of drug interaction check that can come up when using these programs at different pharmacies. Ultimately, I want patients to get their meds safely. No problems here. Full information is best for every one. I am extremely fortunate to not need coupons, at least not yet. Through my former employer I pay $3 for name brand and $0 for generic drugs per Rx for 3months. Caremark (administrator for our Rx program) contacted me for mail order, they would charge me $3 each month for 3 months(separate packaging).. No, that would be $9 for 3 months... They agreed I am getting the best price!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2019 17:31:48 GMT
What info can they sell -- you don't have to give any personal info to use them? When the coupon is used in the pharmacy it is linked to your information, just like insurance is. Every submission to insurance or coupons will send your basic information (name, DOB, address, etc) via electronic pathway to the company that the pharmacy has inputted to submit the claim to. GoodRx isn't a coupon in the sense that it's a coupon we just scan at the register and you get a discount. It's inputted just like insurance information then submitted electronically which then brings back the charge. Thanks for the info! I don't have the need for the service, but it's good to be aware for the future. 🙂
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