No. We do not sell any medications on our site. We only provide price information so you and your doctor can make an informed choice about your prescriptions.
Patients who pay cash for their prescriptions. Patients with insurance who are looking to lower their copays. Health care providers who need convenient price information on prescription drugs.
You look up drugs you are taking on our website. If there is a more affordable alternative, you print out the sheet and takes it with you to your next doctor’s appointment. You and your doctor discuss if one of the listed alternatives is right for you.
Probably not. Medical schools provide little or no training on medication costs. In one medical study U.S. doctors underestimated the price of expensive drugs 91% of the time.
Physicians' Attitudes About Prescribing and Knowledge of the Costs of Common Medications
Steven Reichert, MD; Todd Simon, MD; Ethan A. Halm, MD, MPH
Arch Intern Med. 2000;160:2799-2803.
In a study published in the medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine 90.9% of physicians believed they should consider their patients’ out of pocket expenses when writing prescriptions but only 36.5% stated they know how much patients are spending.
Physician Strategies to Reduce Patients’ Out-of-pocket Prescription Costs G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS; Lawrence P. Casalino, MD, PhD; David O. Meltzer, MD, PhD
Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:633-636.
In the U.S. the FDA must approve generic drugs. A generic drug may be different in appearance but is the same as a brand name drug in: strength, safety, quality, and dosage. All factories that make generic or brand name drugs must meet the same FDA standards.
DrugPriceInfo.com averages prices from a variety of retail pharmacies in the United States. These prices may vary from region to region. You should compare relative prices between drugs.
No. Drugs within the same class can not always be interchanged. The drugs can vary in the conditions they treat, their effectiveness, and in their side effects. For example, sotalol, atenolol and carvedilol all belong to a class of medications called beta blockers. However sotalol is mainly used to arrhythmias, atenolol used to treat high blood pressure, and carvedilol for congestive heart failure.