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Pill Splitting
Pill Splitting Helps Save Money
Pill splitting is a simple procedure and can result in
up to a 50% savings of your out-of-pocket expense for prescription
medication. Splitting pills in half also saves the plan 50% of the cost
of the prescription.
When filling your next prescription, ask your pharmacist
to split a higher dosage tablet in half to get your prescribed dosage.
You may then purchase half the number of tablets, at half the cost of your
original prescription. Your pharmacist will contact your physician for approval
if necessary.
For example:
If you are taking Lipitor 20 mg per day:
- have your doctor or pharmacist dispense the next higher dose (in this case it would be 40
mg)
- You would split to get your 20 mg dosage per day.
- For a 30-day supply you would get 15 pills to split
- For a 90-day supply you would get 45 pills to split
How to split Pills
- Your pharmacist may split the pills
- You can purchase a pill splitter at your local pharmacy
- HCMTI can send you a top of the line pill splitter
(free to all of South Dakota Plan members)
~In this example, approximately $558 can be saved each
year by splitting 40 mg Lipitor in half to equal a 20 mg dose. Your
savings would be about $140 of that amount.
Benefits
You and the plan benefit to obtain a 90-day supply (i.e. 45 pills that you split in half).
- One co-pay every 3 months, instead of monthly
- Avoid extra trips to the pharmacy.
Please consult your physician or pharmacist for
recommendations about these cost-saving interventions for your prescriptions.
Refer to the
information article on the practice of pill splitting which includes a
list of drugs that are appropriate to split.
For Pharmacy related questions
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