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Saved at the Pharmacy...Big Time

February 19th, 2014 at 06:17 am

So I'm sure if you've all been paying attention by now, you know how much I think my insurance company sucks. If not, well, Premera sucks. I mean their website is so bad, that if you try to find a specialist dentist, like an oral surgeon, for, say, a root canal, it lists things like this:

Dentist--urologist
Dentist--breast prosthesis
Dentist--colon and rectal surgeon

Now I have long thought this company has its head up its colon, but I know that's not where I keep my teeth or where any dentist cares to visit. We had this same problem when we are trying to find an orthodontist. *sighs* DH will call them and make them find us an oral surgeon. Because I do think I am still looking at a root canal in the foreseeable future. Which is a whole other story.

Now, I had to fill some prescriptions and one of them goes on the deductible, the Crestor, because if there is one thing Premera is deathly afraid of it is paying for non-generic name brand drugs even if that is what your doctor thinks you should be on. So that makes the drug $185 for 30 pills, or $6.17 a pill. Ugh. But, the Walgreens pharmatech told me they have a discount card for that drug and he whipped it out in the hopes it would give me a reasonable price to pay. You want to know what that reasonable price was? $25! Not $25 off, but $25 total. So I walked out of the pharmacy paying a cool $40 for 3 prescriptions instead of $200.

He also told me that he would mark it in my file because it is an ongoing discount, not just a one time only. Yay! But to also always ask about it because they don't always pay attention to the little notes.

I was a little resentful when we had to switch over to using Walgreens, but today made up for all of it, except losing my long time pharmacist when our little locally owned pharmacy went belly-up.

Also I can use my rewards card at the pharmacy. I haven't figured out what the rewards points are for, but I am racking them up.

I also spent $29.51 on over the counter meds while I was there, too, and got a $2 off coupon for a brand of vitamins I buy.

5 Responses to “Saved at the Pharmacy...Big Time”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
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    That is great news! I think Swagbucks has some sort of pharmacy discount card. Free to anyone actually. Of course, I went looking for it and can't find it on their site. Maybe a Google search. It could be the same thing you got.

  2. FrugalTexan75 Says:
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    If you're talking about the Walgreen's Balance Rewards card, if you save up 40,000 points you can get $50 off your next purchase at Walgreen's. (You can do it at smaller amounts too, but the 40k point for $50 is the best deal.) If you have a fitbit you can connect it with your account to earn points faster -- and/or you can record your weight and daily activity to earn points as well. You also of course get points from purchases. Smile

  3. LuckyRobin Says:
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    CCF--I'll look into that. Although I haven't bothered much with Swagbucks so far this year, except to get the 50 points on my birthday last week. I plan to start paying attention to it again in March.

    Laura--Yes, that is what I am talking about. I don't have a fitbit, but DH does, so we could hook it up to his fitbit. I am going to get one, just haven't gotten around to it yet.

  4. Looking Forward Says:
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    That is great savings! Smile

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