CostPlus Drugs

Name: CostPlus Drugs
Rating: 1.75 (20 reviews)

No middlemen, no price games, huge drug savings

1.8•20 reviews•

36 followers

No middlemen, no price games, huge drug savings

1.8•20 reviews•

36 followers

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Mark Cubans latest venture, Cost Plus, offers hundreds of common (and often life-saving) medications at the lowest possible prices by cutting out the pharmacy middlemen and passing all savings to you.

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It is incredibly sad for Americans that this is even remotely necessary and I'm very glad it's available.

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5yr ago

This is exciting. A trend I've noticed in recent years is that doctors' offices are very, very reluctant to give patients a prescription document that they can take anywhere -- they want to send their prescription directly to a provider. But of course that makes it impossible to shop around. Some providers will do some research to find discount coupons; others won't; and still others depend on who is working the desk at that particular time. I wonder if CostPlus has any guidance on getting portable prescription documents from doctors? It would be helpful to know if they are supposed to give me them if I ask by law, if it's up to them (and therefore, should I ask when I'm reaching out to a new doctor's office), etc.

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5yr ago

This could be a game-changer. I'm curious though..in the footer on the site, it says it's powered by Truepill. Does anyone know the relationship?

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5yr ago

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Surprised this had not been hunted yet… such a game-changer for all Americans that have to deal with inflated prescription drug prices!

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5yr ago

Boltic

A product made with a noble cause to make medicines accessible and affordable to the general public. Congratulations team.

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5yr ago

the two drugs that are killing me on price are Latuda and Viibryd. I was disappointed that those two aren't in the drug list.

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5yr ago

I'd take the pricing with a huge pinch of salt. Checking my coverage with cigna on a HDHP for imatinib 100mg for 30 days they're quoting $1,516.94 but if I look on GoodRX it's $40 from Vons. Just because the wholesale price is X doesn't mean you'd pay that even without insurance. I think the myriad pricing structures is just one part of the insanity. I can pay $40 with a coupon or I can pay Mark $47 without a coupon. So much effort required to check pricing and as someone else mentioned a lot of doctors don't want to give you a prescription because they're incentivized to send it direct to a pharmacy which is fine if you're able to check their pricing first because coupons matter

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5yr ago

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Reviewers consistently praise CostPlus Drugs for low prices, and a few say ordering is easy when a doctor sends the prescription correctly and standard delivery goes smoothly. But the dominant view is that savings come with serious tradeoffs: delayed shipping, prescriptions failing to appear in accounts, limited refill flexibility, missing insurance support, and customer service that feels slow, generic, or unreachable. Several users say the service works only on the “happy path”; once anything goes wrong, getting medication on time becomes stressful or unreliable.

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As with most low-cost options, everything is great as long as you follow the happy path, but as soon as you need anything different, all bets are off. In my case, I realized that due to a weird refill schedule at my previous pharmacy, I was going to run out of one of my four medications towards the end of a three-month overseas trip. On my doctor's advice, I emailed CostPlus on Tuesday to see if I could get an early refill, and only just now (Friday) got a response directing me to call Customer Service and press the number for prescribers. Finally talked to a representative, then a pharmacist, who said he would see what he could do, but I'm concerned the refill won't reach me before I leave in a week. Three stars because they're good as long as you don't need anything special, and because I did actually finally manage to talk to a human who could help. Just make sure you deal with them well in advance and have a backup plan in case they're too slow.

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No middlemen, no price games, huge drug savings

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