Today I was asked a question about how a person could get discounts on their medication. One of the places that I like to visit to is goodrx.com. You can receive a discount without creating an account. If you create an account, the site can store your meds for you. You can print the coupon by clicking on the desired offer from your store and print it. You can also request a discount card that will send by postal mail. So, I visited GoodRx.com to give an example how this works and put my medication as Ambien for 45229 zip code listed out 11 pharmacies and programs for me to choose from.
GoodRx is a free service. They also have a Good Rx Gold you can join that membership for $5.99/month, GoodRx Gold membership provides exclusive access to low drug prices for individuals. For families, choose our $9.99/month plan and add up to 5 family members. The catch to this membership is in the fine print – GoodRx Gold does not provide savings at Publix, Sam’s Club, Walgreens or Walmart.
One of the other places that you can go to is the actual drug manufacturer’s that you’re looking up’s website. On that website they often have a coupon of sorts that you can use can fill out a form printed out take it to the pharmacy they’ll enter in the information and make double sure that you qualify. One of the medications that we’ve used this coupon for is Spiriva my husband gets Spiriva and we went to the website of Spiriva per doctor and filled out the form printed the form and took it in basically it was said that if you have commercial insurance click this button M we did he has insurance through a disability program through his union and when we got to the pharmacy they said I’m sorry this won’t work period one of the things that we found is that they don’t allow you to use any kind of a coupon through the manufacturer’s website if you do not have commercial insurance . It states if you have Medicare Medicaid or government insurance you cannot use the coupon Perry but one thing that we found on that website is it doesn’t offer any kind of a coupon for someone that has no insurance so that was a concern.
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