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You don't need a third-party app to use GoodRx. I use it regularly, and you can just have em email or text you the discount info. When you go to the pharmacist,
by TheAceOfHearts 8y ago
You don't need a third-party app to use GoodRx. I use it regularly, and you can just have em email or text you the discount info. When you go to the pharmacist, you hand em the printout or phone, and they type it in. I'd definitely suggest people at least compare prices with em before going to pick up their medicine.
Another suggestion, at least for California: always ask for paper prescriptions! Fuck digital prescriptions. With a paper prescription you can go to any pharmacy you want and have it filled (i.e. shop around and find the cheapest)! But with a digital prescription you can't have it transferred to another pharmacy without calling up the doctor, which is completely fucked up. It's especially frustrating when your regular pharmacy is out of your prescription and your refill day happens to land on the weekend. Now you have to wait 2 days for your refill. One situation I've had happen occasionally is that I'll miss my regular pharmacy's closing hours because I was busy, so I'll just drive to my nearest 24-hour pharmacy to have my prescription filled; you can't do that with digital prescriptions!
I've literally saved hundreds of dollars, just by shopping around a bit. And heck, it's not as if driving an extra half a mile is such a big deal, especially when it can end up saving you a few hundred dollars. I'll also note that sometimes even within the same franchise prices can vary greatly, so it's often worth going a little bit further.
I think pharmacists are allowed to point out services like GoodRx, but it might be frowned upon, I'm not sure. At least in my case, I found out about their services thanks to a pharmacist: I was refilling a prescription, and the pharmacist walked out of their sealed off area, pulled me to the side and told me to look up this "GoodRx" thing.
- hirsin 8y agoGoodRx /is/ the third party app. The point is that US consumers shouldn't need to worry that their medical insurance is duping them.
- monetus 8y agoI think he was just nitpicking that GoodRX is available through more than a binary you have to install. I've used it through its website quite a bit. Its a wonderful service.
- vxNsr 8y agoMy mother who is a doctor had their business card in her office, you could you the info on it for any prescription. No need to go to a website or download an app.
- wild_preference 8y agoNot very good advice. Pharmacies can deny paper prescriptions at their discretion. And most people know where they’re picking up scripts ahead if time. For example, the pharmacist at a CVS decided not to refill my Vyvanse (amphetamine) paper script because I was paying in cash (+ using paper script). Treated me like a criminal. Digital scripts avoid this unpleasant scenario. The pharmacy system itself needs reform. It’s idiotic that your doctor can write you a prescription that gets denied by someone who puts pills into a bottle. An anti-abuse system that treats everyone like criminals needs a better solution.
- sizzle 8y agoIn my state most doctors don't have the technology to send digital eScript for controlled substances
- freedomben 8y agoOut of curiosity, what state are you in? Even in Alaska, not generally a very technically advanced state, I never met a doctors that didn't have the ability to send eScripts. I never visited a doc in a remote village however, might be a different story out there.
- jetti 8y agoI'm in Illinois and have to get a paper script for my controlled substance prescriptions (Adderall)
- sizzle 8y agoCalifornia, you'd think the handful of doctors I've busted could send an eScript to a national chain (CVS), but I'm denied and made to carry 3 months worth of wonky triplicate paper prescriptions that are prone to being misplaced.
- bdcravens 8y agoOdd. Can't they verify the prescription with the prescribing doctor, and verify your state issued ID? I personally haven't had this issue with Walgreens (but I get a lot of medicines through them, and only controlled substances I've filled were small dosage Norco post-surgery)