Rasagiline (Azilect) savings

[tid1]

If you are in the US and taking rasagiline (Azilect) you know it is very expensive. I checked prices and found that just about every pharmacy is charging the same price for this medication except Sam's club with the Plus membership. I saved so much it more than paid for a year of my Sam's Plus membership in less than two 90 day refills. It is even a big savings over my Medicare Supplemental insurance mail order pharmacy.

[1953bullard]

How much do you pay?

[tid1 in reply to 1953bullard]

$149.38 for 90 days of 1mg. This is for generic Rasagiline. Let me know if you have found a better price.

[1953bullard in reply to tid1]

$468 for the exact same at my Sam’s club. That’s crazy!

[tid1 in reply to 1953bullard]

Do you have the Sam's Plus membership?

[1953bullard in reply to tid1]

No but you can look up the price online. I can get 30 for that price but not 90

[Lilliwaup in reply to tid1]

Are you sure that is the 90 day and not the 30 day. Our 30 day price is $156.05 and $468.15 for 90.

[park_bear]

It is a sad fact that Medicare part D drug "insurance" does not necessarily result in the cheapest drug prices. In general, the Costco pharmacy has very good prices.

[pvw2 in reply to park_bear]

That's incentive to keep working as long as possible where insurance covers a 30 day supply at $7 for the patient.

[ForViolet]

That's pretty interesting information about the pricing with the Plus membership. And we pay into the Medicare Supplemental program but have not benefited from it so far.

[tid1 in reply to ForViolet]

I also have a prescription for Latisse. The generic version (bimatoprost) is also a lot cheaper with the Sam's club Plus membership. We have a few other prescriptions that are cheaper with our Medicare Supplemental pharmacy - OptumRx.

[Takingcare]

My husband just started this medicine. We live in Florida. At first he didn’t want to take it because of the price. Cvs found it for us At $90.00 for 90 day supply. Any comments on what the medicine does? Any success

[tid1 in reply to Takingcare]

My neurologist said it improves the effectiveness of carbidopa-levodopa. It helps avoid side effects of increasing dosage of carbidopa-levodopa. Just watch your blood pressure as it can either increase or decrease blood pressure. Weird I know. Also you cannot take Cyclobenzaprine or St. John's Wort with Rasagiline.

[Takingcare in reply to tid1]

Thank you

[Limpy932]

I am in Canada. Recently diagnosed, this was the first drug prescribed for me. This was not one of the drugs that my drug plan covered. It would have cost me over $200 per prescription. The authorization form was sent to my neurologist to fill out for the drug company to consider. I was instead put on Selegiline. Day 3. So far, so good.

[blackbear701]

I order mine from Planet Drugs Direct; 100 generic pills for $82.

[tid1 in reply to blackbear701]

I tried to go to this site and got a warning that the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP) includes this site on its Not Recommended list. I thought maybe it was because they are not in the US, but there are other Canadian pharmacies on their recommended list. Does anyone know anything about this?

[blackbear701]

I've been ordering from them on and off for years. You need a prescription, and when I ordered Rasagiline for the first time, they even cautioned me that it may not mix well with another medication I am taking for something unrelated to PD. I checked the NABP website but all I could find was "Planet Drugs has not been reviewed by NABP. " The CIPA site cipa.com/certified-safe-onl... does list Planet Drugs as safe and certified.

[tid1]

Update - Sam's Club just increased my $149 rasagiline prescription (90 pills) to $585, even for Sam's Plus members. So I am back to Costco for $238.20 for the same prescription.