What Are The Best Ways To Cut Down On Your Prescription Cost

Posted by Anne Moen on June 27th, 2019

When you are over 50, you would realize that apart from your regular monthly expenditure, there is another cost that keeps on growing with your age, and that is your medicinal cost. It will start with one or two pills, and before you know it has gotten 4 to 5 tablets, not to mention the regular visit to doctor's chambers along with numerous tests to check on your vital stats and whether you are keeping good or not. Medicinal costs will keep on increasing instead of going down, and at some point in time, you cannot avoid medicine in all its totality. So you have to device one or other way to cut down on the cost of medicine.

What Are The Best Ways To Cut Down On Your Prescription Cost

Best Ways To Cut Your Prescription Cost?

  • When the doctor prescribes you a medicine, ask him whether there is a generic for the same, drug and if does not then ask him whether there is any other drug whose generic would do the same result on your health, because it is unlikely that the doctors will provide you with the pocket-friendly option.
  • Doctors often receive many samples of new medicines in the market and prescriptions, so ask whether he possesses an example of that particular drug, and if you are lucky and of course if the doctor is ready to help, then you might end up receiving a full course on antibiotic, or a month's supply of a maintenance drug, free of charge.
  • You can also request for groceries; groceries are not just for grocery shopping alone, you can also apply them in medical shops while buying your monthly supply of medicine. You can also check on the various online sites which offer medicine and check whether they are providing any discounts on the medication you want to buy.
  • Some store offers refilling of antibiotics, vitamins, and blood pressure, heart and diabetic medicines. Many grocery stores also keep this scheme; you have to find out which store in your vicinity are providing this facility.
  • Just like you do when shopping clothes, you do not go to one shop and buy it from there only, so similarly when buying medicines; you should also shop around here and there before you settle on one. And that is precisely how you can be successful in cutting medical costs.

If you follow these tips, you would realize that you are saving a lot of money from your monthly expenditure; because the cash spends on buying medicines will be cut down. Medicines are vital, but that does not imply you have to pay all your saving son medicine, so save money by these processes mentioned above.  

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