Posted by Otter at 4:17pm Jul 3 '10if not possibly at a slight loss...
Particularly for Wal-Mart and Grocery Stores - get you in the door for your $4 RX... and sell you 20 other things you don't need along the way.... particularly if you have to sit and wait for it!
We have an "old fashioned" HMO plan where you have to go to THEIR pharmacy to get pills and no others (if you want things to be covered) and my wife is on a lot of different things right now (still). We still go to Wal-Mart for a few of her pills because they are even cheaper than the HMO. The HMO beats all on Diabetes supplies though (for my son) by a LONG shot... it's so weird. I can get 250 test strips for him for $20, that's normally about $250... and only lasts us a month.
However - it seems like every time we walk into the store - we leave with something else.
It's the latest version of the oldest pharmacy game - they definitely know what they're doing.
Particularly for Wal-Mart and Grocery Stores - get you in the door for your $4 RX... and sell you 20 other things you don't need along the way.... particularly if you have to sit and wait for it!
We have an "old fashioned" HMO plan where you have to go to THEIR pharmacy to get pills and no others (if you want things to be covered) and my wife is on a lot of different things right now (still). We still go to Wal-Mart for a few of her pills because they are even cheaper than the HMO. The HMO beats all on Diabetes supplies though (for my son) by a LONG shot... it's so weird. I can get 250 test strips for him for $20, that's normally about $250... and only lasts us a month.
However - it seems like every time we walk into the store - we leave with something else.
It's the latest version of the oldest pharmacy game - they definitely know what they're doing.
it's probably break-even... - Otter