$9.99 for 90 days with enrollment with the Health Savings Pass CVS becomes the latest retail drug chain to jump on the bandwagon, pretty close in comparison, except you need to join the Health Savings Plan. The plan is primarily created for cash patients but anyone can benefit so if you have a...
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The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 10-31-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Insurance, Pharma/FDA News, drugs, PHR, Google Health, Prescriptions, Generic Drugs, Personal Health Records, HealthVault, CVS, Discounts, Minute Clinic
This is a very good article here that talks about what goes on in the back side of a medical practice. When working with an HMO or PPO contract it can be a very time consuming process. Because of all the faxing and paper work that some IPAs require who are not set up on the web, this...
Digitek, as you may or may not remember was found to contain twice the amount of active ingredient in the tablets earlier this year. The list is below as published by the FDA. The recall is being conducted for retailers to return their products currently. It sounds like...
Good article from the Wall Street Journal blog here about generics, however in the example quoted below, the patient’s benefit payment of 146.53 just doesn’t come close to taking advantage of a cash prescription of the same drug for $10.00 for a 90 supply at Wal-Mart or Target . In this case with...
The merger of these 2 companies does make perfect sense. For those physicians who have already been using e-Prescribing, this has been an issue with some of the mail order companies in accepting prescriptions in this fashion as well. The retail locations seemed to be one up on their technology...
I try to use the right hand column of this page to offer some quick links to readers. One item worth check out is the direct links to the PDF sheets from the retailers that offer the $4.00 prescriptions on generic drugs. Each retailer has 300-500 drugs that provide a 30 day prescription for $4.00. There...
Posted to
The Medical Quack .... by Barbara Duck
on 05-26-2008
Filed under: Medically Related, Pharma/FDA News, Other Items of Interest, drugs, Prescriptions, $4.00 Prescriptions, Drug Information, Generic Drugs