From: "Jeff Shultz" 


"Randy Holcomb"  wrote in message
news:3923d47c{at}w3.nls.net...
> If your healthcare provider is halfway intelligent they usually
> have a copy of the formulary for each of the insurance plans
> they participate in. My PCP carries a Cassiopeia programmed
> with that data.
>
> In the case of antidepressants a HUGE cost savings can be had
> just by changing the size of the pill. Instead of prescribing 90
> tablets of 15 mg Remeron at $220 the doc can prescribe 30
> tablets of 45 mg Remeron for $70.....

Well, I just goofed in my post to Bill... I'm taking 400mg Cimetidine, not
200s... my parents are on 800s, and the cost increase between the two is
rather incredible. I've wondered why the prescribe the much more expensive
800s instead of just prescribing 2 400s, and decided that it probably has
something to do with release rate.

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