Same pill, same plan, different counter. Why one prescription costs more at the pharmacy across the street, what preferred actually means, and the thing your pharmacist is allowed to tell you.
Medicare & Healthcare

Same pill, same plan, different counter. Why one prescription costs more at the pharmacy across the street, what preferred actually means, and the thing your pharmacist is allowed to tell you.

Medicare's own words: preferred pharmacies may save you money because they have agreed to charge less than other pharmacies in your plan's network. Same drug, same plan, two prices. Here is the arithmetic on three prescriptions at two counters, when mail order wins and when it does not, the cash-pri