The adderall shortage has hit me hard over the last year, but I finally found a pharmacy that is able to fill my script every month. I occasionally try other pharmacies closer to me and they tell me they are still in back order for months. The one that has it consistently is a super small mom-and-pop shop and even major pharmacies like CVS have been out for ages. How do some pharmacies get it all the time and others don’t?
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Pharmacies don’t keep large backstocks. Not in stores, not in warehouses. It’s about expiration dates. Yes, drugs most often have a long shelf life, but there are legal limits to when they have to sell-by.
Price depends on the company’s buying power. Kaiser, for instance, has enormous buying power. They’re the largest corporation in California, and have almost half of the health care market.
That’s how they can give patients insulin for around $20 a bottle.
They pull a lot of weight in contract negotiations.
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