So my insurance company and my employer have found a new way

[SPKrazy]

to make more money for Wal Mart?

Okay, my insurance now only pays full benefits at Walmart Pharmacies

Walmart pharmacies have $4 generic drugs already.

My co pay for generic drugs at Walmart is $5 :wtf:

So I guess every generic drug sold, a $1 goes to someone.

:grr:

Who's the genius who made this plan available? :shrug:

The advantage is for formulary drugs that are still brand, they are a $20 co pay which can be good if it is an expensive drug.

So I'm not complaining about it too much, just thought it was a strange thing...

Oh and this just started 1/1/08

:hi:

:crazy:

[leftofthedial]

1. "Who's the genius who made this plan available?"

whoever is getting that $1.

[SPKrazy]

2. yeah

:rofl:

[Parche]

3. Nice Post Fred Thompson

:rofl: :rofl: :hi:

I would never shop at Walmart .............

[SPKrazy]

5. Well, live in Arkansas

and there aren't many other choices for lots of things

and the pharmacy is now the preferred provider so it saves me money.

:shrug:

[Parche]

7. ok

Then i feel your pain..............:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :hi:


Hope? Little Rock? bentonville? fayetteville? Southpawkickerville? :hi:

[SPKrazy]

8. Southpawkickerville

:rofl:

FSM for you...

[IronLionZion]

4. Then don't use your insurance for those $4 drugs

:shrug: Are you sure you read it right? Why would your co-pay be higher than the regular cost?

[SPKrazy]

6. I read it right

I might do that.

[hippywife]

9. It may turn out that no one gets it.

Anytime my pharmacy charges less that my co-pay, they only charge me their price. My co-pays in the formulary are $10/40/60. I went and had a new script filled last night that fell into the middle category and it only cost me $35. But in your case we are talking about WalMart, aren't we?

I would still fill my scripts anywhere but WalMart, even if it meant paying more somewhere else. They are trying to corner the market in everything. I can see really, really poor folks really needing to take advantage of the $4 scripts but I would hope people who could afford it would bypass giving them that much more power in the marketplace.