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Forest Park Pharmacy
COST-PLUS & COMPOUNDING
Medicare Is Paying $194 for a $20 Drug
Medicare is on pace to waste $126 million this year overpaying for one generic drug.
The drug is lamotrigine ER, the extended-release version of a widely used medication for seizures and bipolar disorder. It's an old generic with several manufacturers, and its price has been coming down.
If you pay through insurance, though, you'd never know it. Medicare is paying nearly $200 per prescription. At our pharmacy, a 3-month supply costs about $20 without insurance.
They Picked Your Medicine. You Just Pay.
The insurance companies and their PBMs sat down and decided which biosimilars they would cover. And guess which ones they picked. They picked their own white-label products. Express Scripts, CVS Caremark, and OptumRx excluded nearly all the non-house-brand biosimilars from their 2025 formularies.
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I Took the PBM Lobby's IQ Quiz!
The PBM lobby made an online "IQ quiz" to teach the public how helpful pharmacy benefit managers really are. So I took it. I failed. Proudly.
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Self-funded health plan? We can save you money
It can be hard to believe, but we are able to offer tremendous savings on prescription medication costs without having to change your...
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