Am I the last person to learn about this amazing App: Good Rx? I spend hours, yes-hours calling pharmacy after pharmacy to find the best price in town for my beloved EpiPens® and Auvi-Q®. Good Rx is an amazing App that allows consumers to price compare local prescription prices and find coupons or discounts! Thank you to Allergy Words Founder, Aleasa Word, Life Coach and community activist, for sharing this vital resource. Access to medication is a serious problem in our food allergy and asthma world. Week after week, I hear from people who are struggling (with or without insurance) to purchase life saving epinephrine and asthma medications.
Highlights of the Good Rx App (or what I found in my search for affordable EpiPen®s)…
- Can upload Good Rx on your desktop, iPhone or Android
- Type in your drug’s name, such as EpiPen® and GoodRx will display local pharmacy names and prices
- GoodRx will also offer links to the Manufacturer’s discounts and zero co-pay cards and patient assistance program (this really thrills me)
- Drugs for pets can be searched
- You can also obtain a discount card for coupons provided by GoodRx specific to participating pharmacies
- The site is also available in Spanish
- A pill identifier uses images to help folks like me who toss a few antihistamines into bottles with vitamins for travel and then can’t remember which pill does what?!?
- NOTE: GoodRx is NOT a pharmacy but a resource to find the best price on a medication for folks without or without insurance
My insurance does not cover injectors AND I have a high deductible which leaves me paying cash and shopping around. Even though $100 coupons are welcomed, I’m still looking a spending over $1,000 per child just for the school year (two are kept at school, two in their backpacks and two extra at home in case they misplace their epinephrine). This App is welcome site in my world.
THANK YOU Aleasa Word for being such a good friend, a great food allergy life coach and for a wicked good discount shopper!
One of the hardest things I find about managing both life threatening food allergies and asthma is talking to others. I hate to be the one that might be perceived as demanding, pushing or for asking too much. What I now know, fourteen years later, is that honest, clear information presented with kindness works!..
Thanks for sharing this vital app Caroline! It’s sad t here is such a disparity in pricing when it comes to the medications we need and that we have to shop them like we are looking for a car or house….but I’m glad apps like this exist and it has saved me a lot of money!
I went to the pharmacy to replace my son’s Epi-Pen for the new school year. I have insurance and with the coupon it was no cost last year. Well, the insurance company obviously went through some changes and no longer has the Epi-Pen as a covered Rx. When I got the price quote from the pharmacist I nearly died. Last year it was free, and I had 3 of the 2 pack packages. This year the same medication was going to cost me $800 out of pocket.
Of course, I had to decline the medication at that price and asked for my Rx back to return to my son’s allergist. Luckily, the allergist had Saturday hours and I was able to have a new Rx written for Avi-Q. I was able to get 2 of the 2 pack packages and with the coupon from Avi-Q online, my out of cost was $0.
I guess it would have been wonderful for the insurance company to notify the doctors of this change. Our doctor would have written the prescription for what was covered back in May when we had our yearly appointment.
The cost of these medications is out of control. Even the Avi-Q had a cost of over $1,100 for 2 of the 2 pack packages. Then the coupon covered the rest bringing my cost to $0.
Thank you for all of the information learned from reading this blog, I was able to get my son’s medication with the knowledge learned from this site.