Thanks everyone. We already do the $4 and $10 plan through Walmart for his meds when we can. The mail order pharmacies I'm talking about are human ones like Medco. Employers contract with them for employees to bring insurance costs down. These mail order places basically eliminate the middle man, such as Walmart, Target. They base charges on costs to them, with a mark up. My husband has a cholesterol med that is $80 a month at our pharmacy--through the Medco program it's $20 for a 3 month supply, simply because there is less handling involved in the distribution and there is more volume because Medco has so many members. Mail order pharmacies like this usually send them in 3 month supplies, which is a time saver for me, being I don't like standing in line at a pharmacy every month.. I was hoping to hear they accept people without insurance or pets as well, as long as their owner is already a customer. We obviously won't be filing for our dog under our medical insurance (but wouldn't that be nice if we could!), but I was hoping that as long as it's a human medication these pharmacies might be inclined to fill it.
I'll post if I get a response back from the plan we are on, assuming it's not a off the wall response or a telephone call. If it's not possible I'll just see if Toby's vet will write a 3 month prescription to be filled at the pharmacy...yes...I am lazy when it comes to pharmacy runs!
