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Good Morning Art and Good Morning All, The Aministration, of the benefit plan I fall under, suggest that people with long term prescription meds should purchase a 3 mo. supply to save on the dispensing fee. A three month supply of Comtan (Entacopone) 200MG costs $674.59 CAN + a $7.55 CAN Fee = $682.14 CAN... (My 3 month supply = 450 Tablets) 682.14/450 = $1.5158 per Tablet... roughly 17 cents per Tab less than Art paid... and less than his lowest quote... - suggesting that there is a cost saving to be realized by "bulk" purchase, even if it is only fewer Fees... (Art suggests monolithic pricing of the drug itself...) ( I am blessed in that my Rx Drug costs ae 100% covered by my union benefits...) The currency exchange rate is much more favorable (to my US buddies) than you surmised Art... xe.com Universal Currency Converter™ Results Live mid-market rates as of 2002.10.01 12:53:31 GMT. 1.52 Canada Dollars = 0.958430 United States Dollars 1 CAD = 0.630546 USD 1 USD = 1.58593 CAD http://www.xe.com/ucc/ cheers ....... murray On 30 Sep 2002 at 14:42, Arthur Hirsch wrote: > I have recently checked into the prices of several > of the medications that > I use to try to save myself some money. > > I will share with you here the data on COMTAN > (Entacapone) 200mg., 100 tablets. This is typical. > > Wal-Mart pharmacy in Canada: Canadian dollars: $168.93 > Equivalent in U.S. Dollars, using CA$1.50 = US$1.00: $112.62 > (actually current rate is closer to CA$1.55 = US$1.00, > so the equivalent amount might be US$108.99.) > > I also have an AARP statement showing me the prices > at Walgreen's (U.S.): Pharmacy Price: $178.09 > Specially arranged price: $156.31 (which is what I paid) > ...and, FWIW, the price on the AARP web page: $154.56. > > Whether or not one can get a better price by buying > several hundred at a time, I don't know. Most places > that I talked to appeared to have monolithic pricing > > Hope this proves useful to some of my fellow listmembers. > > Art > > "On the list since '96" > > * * * Murray Charters <[log in to unmask]> http://www.geocities.com/murraycharters/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn