I get loads of questions about where to find discounted meds and other diabetes supplies. Especially over at the DiabeticConnect residential area, costs are unitary of the hottest topics. Until now, I've been referring folks to Patient Assistance Programs, neglecting the fact that if you have a slim bit of cash connected hand, you give the axe get your D-poppycock for surprising prices at your local Wal-Mart.

Seriously. I was jolly stunned when I walked by the Wal-Mart Pharmacy booth at the ADA Conference last week and saw the price points:

Glucose Meters starting at $9

Testing Strips start at .39 cents each (!)

A ReliOn home A1c test outfit for $9

ReliOn/Novolin insulin for $23.67 per ampoule

And get this: a 30-day prescription for reasonable $4, Beaver State a 90-day render for $10, for hundreds of oral drugs, including:

  • Metformin
  • Glyburide
  • Glipizide
  • Glimepiride
  • Mevacor
  • Lisinopril
  • Levothyroxine

and many more, including arthritis and pain drugs, channel meds, asthma attack and infection treatments, etc., etc.

Belly laugh.  There was really new research data presented at the ADA viewing that Wal-Marketplace and Medco Mail Order are presently the least expensive do drugs vendors. Whatever excerpts from this report:

"The tally monthly owed Leontyne Price for all 10 drugs well-nig ordinarily prescribed to diabetes patients for any indicant ranged from a short of $428.35 with Medco to a high of $641.90 with Rite Aid."

"Dr. Jackness and colleagues found that Glucophage oversubscribed for $4.00 in the generic drug discount program at Wal-Mart and Target and for $5.00 at Kmart. But the topical neighborhood pharmacies averaged $38.95 and pharmacy chain Rite Aid charged $39.99."

Boo happening Rite Aid, I say!

And even though Wal-Marketplace may have taken both unethical missteps with its engagement practices in the onetime, you hold to appreciate their efforts to offer much financial relief to people with diabetes.

The entreat reports that in so far, "the company's affordable pharmacy program has saved customers more than $1 billion. That number is expected to grow this class since customers began pickings advantage of ReliOn diabetic testing supplies survive fall."

Ugh… am I actually plugging Wal-Mart?  Cured hell, I'd plug anyplace where a 90-day supply of critical diabetes meds costs retributive $10 — even without health insurance policy.