10 Minute Explainer: How to Get the Best Price on Your Prescription Drugs
For this membership drive, we will end each show with a ten minute explainer on a different topic each day. Up first, Jeanne Pinder, founder and CEO of Clear Health Costs, who has a recent TED Talk on health care costs, talks about how to make sure you get the best price for your prescription drugs.
On prescription drugs:
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"Prices vary a lot. It’s also important that people should ask the pharmacist ‘what does this cost me on my insurance’ but also, ‘what is the cash price?’" says @JPinderHealth. Sometimes paying cash can be cheaper. #10MinuteExplainer
"Costco has a lot of low prices. Most people don’t realize Costco has a pharmacy," says @JPinderHealth on how to get the best deal for your prescription drugs.
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"Quite often the pharmaceutical benefit manager might have a deal behind the scenes to forward the non-generic drug. You should always ask ‘is there a generic?’” says @JPinderHealth.
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