r/ADHD • u/Space-Useful • 2d ago

Seeking Empathy My medication went from $31 to $130.

I'm really frustrated right now and I would like to know if anybody has experienced sonthing similar. So I'm on Methylphenidate and I would pick it up from my local walmart for $31 dollars. Starting this month, it randomly shot up to $130. I called my insurance, they said it was somthing up with walmart. Talked to my walmart pharmacist and she said that nothing has changed with walmart in terms of a manufacturing change and no changes to my prescription has been made.

I had to bite the bullet and pay to get the medication (I'm afraid of abruptly stopping it). I plan in calling my insurance again but this is just very upsetting.

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u/Mobile-Hornet-2864 2d ago

Try not using your insurance and ask if they have a cash price. It's cheaper for me to do it this way. $47 cash or $79 with insurance lol. Insurance is kind of scam imo, and only helps with hospital stays and ER visits.

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u/OOBERRAMPAGE 2d ago

Walmarts system is set up so that if a medications cash price is $47 and your co-pay would normally be higher, then they only charge you the $47. Now i have definitely heard of this kind of thing happening in hospitals however. " No way am I paying $900 for this! I have insurance! You didn't even do anything". Oh I see we don't have your insurance on file. here let me input that for you. Thank you for holding, that will now be $1300 please". Lmao.