prescription costs
Currently have a pr visa and wondering how much it will cost for the wifes medication as she has to take 3 different tablets per day.
I realise this could amount to a considerable sum over a month/year etc. Will we get any kind of concesion cost wise? Any help most appreciated:thumbup::thumbup: |
Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by painter man
(Post 9487987)
Currently have a pr visa and wondering how much it will cost for the wifes medication as she has to take 3 different tablets per day.
I realise this could amount to a considerable sum over a month/year etc. Will we get any kind of concesion cost wise? Any help most appreciated:thumbup::thumbup: |
Re: prescription costs
Hi Dorothy
Wifes tablets are for high blood pressure,high cholesterol and HRT. |
Re: prescription costs
Depends on where you get them from. Oneindependent chemist near me charges $14 for one of my meds. Another one - Amcal - charge $13. 15 minutes drive up the motorway to a Pharmacy Warehouse where they charge $6.50. If I go to the Amcal with the PW box to get a repeat, they will match the PW price (can't do it for all meds though for some thieving reason).
Tiddler needed antibiotics a few months back. Amcal charged me $12.80. Three days later I needed them, identical product and amount and they charged me $13.60. Rang PW asked how much they'd have charged - would have been $7 something, went back to Amcal with both boxes, told them about PW price and they reimbursed me the full amount I'd paid and apologised. I only used PW unless it's an emergency. Definitely shop around. |
Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by moneypenny20
(Post 9488049)
Depends on where you get them from. Oneindependent chemist near me charges $14 for one of my meds. Another one - Amcal - charge $13. 15 minutes drive up the motorway to a Pharmacy Warehouse where they charge $6.50. If I go to the Amcal with the PW box to get a repeat, they will match the PW price (can't do it for all meds though for some thieving reason).
Tiddler needed antibiotics a few months back. Amcal charged me $12.80. Three days later I needed them, identical product and amount and they charged me $13.60. Rang PW asked how much they'd have charged - would have been $7 something, went back to Amcal with both boxes, told them about PW price and they reimbursed me the full amount I'd paid and apologised. I only used PW unless it's an emergency. Definitely shop around. |
Re: prescription costs
my husband is on medication for high cholesterol is around $34 a month
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Re: prescription costs
If you are entitled to Family Tax Benefit, and are on a low income you may qualify for a concession card. My meds which are $34.50 per bottle cost me $5.60 http://www.centrelink.gov.au/interne..._cards_hcc.htm
but of course, you are better off not being entitled to one of them as you only get one if you are on a really bad wage! :D You can always look up prices here: http://www.pharmacyonline.com.au/ should give you an idea :) |
Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by Wendy
(Post 9488202)
If you are entitled to Family Tax Benefit, and are on a low income you may qualify for a concession card. My meds which are $34.50 per bottle cost me $5.60 http://www.centrelink.gov.au/interne..._cards_hcc.htm
but of course, you are better off not being entitled to one of them as you only get one if you are on a really bad wage! :D You can always look up prices here: http://www.pharmacyonline.com.au/ should give you an idea :) |
Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by moneypenny20
(Post 9488219)
Thank god for the HCC. First born has one and instead of paying $180 for a full set of Epilepsy meds, she pays about $30.
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Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by moneypenny20
(Post 9488219)
Thank god for the HCC. First born has one and instead of paying $180 for a full set of Epilepsy meds, she pays about $30.
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Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by chris and farideh
(Post 9488439)
OH only pays around $30 p/m for his Epilepsy Meds & that's without the health card, which one is she taking to be that expensive.:eek:
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Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by moneypenny20
(Post 9488219)
Thank god for the HCC. First born has one and instead of paying $180 for a full set of Epilepsy meds, she pays about $30.
Originally Posted by moneypenny20
(Post 9489765)
She's on 500 mg Tegretol and 100 mg Lamictal twice a day. The Lamictal is bloody expensive, even when she gets the generic. There isn't a generic Tegretol.
Re the generic form of Lamictal, my husband won't get it as he read somewhere, I think it was the national epilepsy mob's magazine that there was evidence to suggest that the generic form of Lamictal might not be as effective as Lamictal itself. Probably bullshit but OH decided not to chance it. |
Re: prescription costs
$34 per item for a month's supply usually so around $100 per month. When you hit the safety net (around $1200 from memory) then you get them at concession rates
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Re: prescription costs
Originally Posted by moneypenny20
(Post 9488219)
Thank god for the HCC. First born has one and instead of paying $180 for a full set of Epilepsy meds, she pays about $30.
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prescription medication
can this be claimed through medicare ? :o
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