I plan to take cash only. A lot of my patients don't use their drug insurance anyway for those $4 generics...they find it easier and just as cheap (or cheaper) to buy locally than through their prescription mail order. Those and the patients without prescription insurance would be my target. I would stock only those meds that I can sell for $4/month's supply and make a few dollars. At least not lose money. Here's another example...Metformin ER 500 mg cost $4.65/100 tabs. Resell the bottle for $12 (which is actually less than what the patient would pay at Wal-Mart).
Leslie
Leslie Hospital Employed Physician Who Misses The Old AC
"It's a good thing for a doctor to have prematurely grey hair and itching piles. It makes him appear to know more than he does and gives him an expression of concern which the patient interprets as being on his behalf. "
|