Abilify: It's Really Expensive!

Sometimes, I like to bother pharmacists.  They are the nicest people, and very patient about looking up medication costs for me.  Once, I wrote a post called The Co$t of Being Depressed, where I compared the cost of anti-depressants. Today,  I'm writing over on our Clinical Psychiatry News website about The Surprisingly High Cost of Abilify.  Here's the short form, but do surf over there for details:I called three pharmacies and compared prices on Abilify.Please remember, this data is for three pharmacies only A single 2 mg tablet cost between $30 and $33 dollars.  More don't cost appreciably less per pill so a 90 day supply ran $2700 at a local independent pharmacy to $2724.81 at Wal-mart.  If you do the math, you'll realized that at Wal-mart there was some discount for bulk : the pill price for 90 tablets is about 30 cents/pill less than for 90 pills. A single 30mg tablet runs $38-$47.   A 2mg tablet costs the same as a 15mg tablet --which is the same as a 5mg and 10mg tablet A 20mg tablet costs the same as a 30mg tablet.It costs a whole lot less if you split the pills.This stuff is expensive. You'll note the graphic above is an animated Abilify commercial.  I hope the pharmaceutical company appreciates the free advertising.----- Listen to our latest podcast at mythreeshrinks.com or subscribe to our rss feed. Email us at mythreeshrinks at gmail dot com Our book is out now.
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