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Generic Drugs At Brand Name Price?

We recently got a refill on a prescription drug from our mail order pharmacy. The pill bottle says it is a generic drug and has a very different name than the drug prescribed. But the price is the same. Usually the price for generic drugs is very considerably less so Tracey called the pharmacy to find out what is going on. They tell it is an issue with the insurance company —— call them.

So Tracey calls them and after the usual nonsense of them asking every question except, �What is your name?� —— they finally decide to use her name instead of all the goofy �membership numbers� Membership?

(Like this is a country club or something?)

Anyway, they tell Tracey it really isn�t a generic. So how does the pharmacy get away with substituting because it is a generic but the insurance company has a different list that says it isn�t a generic? It was my understanding that the �May Substitute for generic� on the prescription was only if they were substituting a generic? How can it not be a generic and be a �name brand� drug with a different name? This entire run-around is getting all too common anymore. Everybody in the Medical Mafia just makes up the rules as they go along and we pay through the nose?

Well perhaps Tracey’s phone call to complain might have helped. We got a check in the mail Saturday for $90 as a reimbursement. So I wonder if everybody got reimbursed or only those who complained?

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MjL 02 Apr 2012, 9:58 a.m.

Generic Drugs At Brand Name Price?

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