Wal-Mart Expands $4.00 Drug Program
In September, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced a new drug plan that would offer 291 of the most commonly prescribed generic drugs for $4.00 for a 30 day supply. Originally the pilot program was only available in the Tampa Bay area of Florida, with plans to expand to more states during 2007. Customer response has been so overwhelming that Wal-mart has decided to expand the list to 314 generic prescription medications and to expand the target area to include 14 more states beginning this past Thursday, October 19th.
New states participating in the $4.00 plan include:
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- Delaware
- Florida
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Nevada
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- Oregon
- Texas
- Vermont
Of special interest to people who have Type 2 diabetes, several of the more commonly prescribed oral diabetes medications are on the list including:
- Glipizide 5 mg and 10 mg.
- Glyburide 2.5 mg and 5 mg.
- Glyburid MCR 3 mg. and 6 mg.
- Glimepiride 1 mg.
- Metformin 1,000 mg., 850 mg., 500 mg. and 500 mg. ER
Several high blood pressure medications will also be available including commonly prescribed ACE inhibitors; Captopril, Enalapril, and Lisinopril, and beta blockers such as Metoprolol and Propranolol.
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Comments
A lot of people don’t like Wal-Mart, but it takes an organization with the buying power of Wal-Mart to pull this off.
Kudos to Wal-Mart for taking the initiative. I think it’s great. Especially since some of these drugs cost $30-$40 a month at the competition.
It sounds great but they determine what a 30 day supply means I take 5 mg Glipizide daily which means 60 tablets a month they only consider 30 tablets a month supply so it cost $8 instead. So I asked if I could get 10 mg and break them in half they checked and only charged $2.10 for 30 it is funny that the bigger doses are cheaper than the smaller doses.
With my Blue Cross my prescriptions were about $5.00 a month less expensive than at SAV-ON. However, the customers service at Walmart, Sandy, Utah was so deplorable that I had the prescriptions transferred back to Sav-ON. The Walmart pharmacy staff and one of the pharmacists were the most rude, uncaring, and incompent that I had ever seen. The were real nice when they took the prescriptions, but if they had to call the doctor’s office or render any other service they refused to do it and then blamed each other. They were even so incompetent that the store manager had to get the pharmacist to transfer the prescription back to Sav-On. If you get a one time presctiption for a pain med from a dentist or a cold Walmart would be good, however, for “maintenance medications”–forget them.
I hear you! It takes Wal-Mart forever to fill a prescription when you call in for refills. Then you waste $4.00 a gallon gas to get there and they are not ready!!!
Thanks to Wal-Mart I am able yo fill all my medications for less than 30 dollars a month. My blood pressure meds alone were over 80 dollars.
America is reaping its citizens off. Government doesn’t care for anything but their pockets. Vote them all out and get the common man in office. They understand America.