My medication went from $31 to $130.

[u/Space-Useful]

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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Call and bitch with insurance or go back later. 1/3 times I go to the pharmacy I get some outrageous charge, so I leave and go back later with a different person at the drive thru and my rate is back to normal.

The last time I went to the pharmacy the priced jumped up by 100+ because they said insurance didn't cover my prescription despite them covering it the previous month, I called insurance and they said they didn't cover it for X unrelated reason, I go back to the drive thru still on the phone and it's magically covered because the new person at the counter actually knew what they were doing.