When one of Dr. Jardini's patients was checking prices for generic Prozac, he was quoted amounts of $153, $125, $119, $80, and $41 for a 30-day supply at five local drugstores. It pays to compare prices at websites, too. For instance, the cheapest prescription for a 30-day supply of 20-milligram capsules of generic Prozac at DestinationRx, a website that compares prices at online pharmacies, was recently $4, while the least expensive option from RxUSA was $12.
As of 2007, 10 states (and counting) were maintaining websites to help consumers compare drug prices at in-state pharmacies. A list of states with these price-comparison sites is available in a 2008 report by the Center for Studying Health System Change.
If you need more than one medication, make a list of all your medicines and their doses and find out the total cost for your entire list at a variety of pharmacies and websites; pick the place that offers the best deal on your total medicine package, rather than getting one medicine here and another one there. It is important that all your drugs ultimately come from the same pharmacy, so the pharmacist there has all of your information and can advise you if one of your medications will interfere with another, Ray says.
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