Hey my once daily inhaler I use every day of the week was only $326.60 this month. Neato.
Three hundred and twenty six dollars every fucking month. And sixty fucking cents. WITH INSURANCE. It's six hundred fucking dollars without insurance!
Healthcare is a fuck.
Saint Luigi protect us.
Try going to the pharmacy and asking to pay cash. Don't tell them you have insurance. The cash price is sometimes insanely cheaper, like $150-$200 cheaper in this case.
I can usually get an Albuterol inhaler for about $50 cash.
Also don't be afraid to shop around and ask a few places what their cash prices are on things.
I have been down that route, cash price is 800 at HEB, north of 750 at Walmart, CVS is close to 800. Without insurance, my best option is the Goodrx card thing, and even then it's a couple dollars over 600.
The mfgr used to offer a discount coupon, but it's only available once apparently, for "up to" 12 months and my discount off of it expired four months ago. It's tied to my ins ID so I can't just sign up for another one and do it again. It made it a 'manageable' $100 a month instead for about eight months
The office manager at my pulmonologists office and I used to date once upon a time so if she is working when I have an office visit I'll get a month or two's worth of samples to hold me over, but they haven't had any the last two times I've been. I've tried a few other inhalers that are much cheaper, but they just don't work on me like the expensive one does. Im just glad I don't have to use the higher dosage version. I've been taking this med for about two years now, and I've just gotten used to it. This month it just stings a little more than usual because I started a new job and am flat broke this month.
*fixed some sentences. Fat fingered my phone keyboard.
Ugh that's a nightmare. Everyone in my family is in generics and pays cash so it's a "manageable" $300-$400/month for us to stay alive. Some of the non-generic scrips are insane.