"You save $-45.73"
Filling a script for NY Medicaid today. Now Medicaid will sometimes pay for the brand preferentially over the generic, if the manufacturer gives them a better ~~kickback~~ ~~bribe~~ rebate. Most of the time this winds up costing the taxpayer more money over the generic.
This time, though, it makes sense. 233
Drug is Retin-A 0.025% cream, brand is $33.19, generics are much higher, so finre, I fill it with DAW-9 and it goes through, I get paid, the reimbursement is higher than my outlay for a change, all is well.
Then I go to Kinray to order the stuff. Put in the brand, and as usual, it pops up the substitution box to show me how much I would save over the brand. I kid you not, this is what it says, cit and pasted directly from the screen:
We have a cheaper alternative for your requested item. You save -45.73 (-137.78%) by ordering this item.
Yeah, no thanks. 468