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Thread: 2020 flu season
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10-11-2020, 10:56 PM #61
BCBS Federal. She works for the federal government. You don't think you're not paying for it with socialized medicine do you?
They're buying customer loyalty. You people who don't have Publix don't know what you're missing. The people that are from Florida know what I'm talking about.Iron by iron is sharpened, And a man sharpens the face of his friend. PR 27:17
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10-11-2020, 11:03 PM #62
I don't think so.
The following numbers are just ideas......
It is an advertising scheme.
I make a couple of bucks on the shot {12} and then give you a coupon for ten. What is my profit margin on ten for the coupon? Maybe 3.
So I make 7 less on the shot but maybe get you to come to my pharmacy in the future so I can make a lot more.
Then if you don't use the coupon that is a profit.
Nothing is for free!LOL
P.S. Anyone in the pharmacy or business world feel free to correct my numbers.
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10-11-2020, 11:26 PM #63
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Thanked: 3228Yes, you as the pharmacy only make $12.00 on the shot and so on. I am saying the cost of the flu shot the insurance company pays is likely too high. You are going to make 12 bucks no matter the cost to the insurance company.
The insurance company is paying whatever the going rate is for the shot just as if you paid for it yourself. They do not bulk buy the doses as some countries do for free distribution reducing the per shot cost of the vaccine.
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10-11-2020, 11:29 PM #64
No, you definitely got that wrong. The doctors and the pharmacist don't dictate to the insurance companies what they will pay the insurance companies dictate to the doctors and the pharmacy what they will pay.
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10-12-2020, 01:37 AM #65
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10-12-2020, 01:46 AM #66
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Thanked: 3228Kind of interesting to see the price difference between what the CDC pays for bulk contract drugs per dose and what the private sector and individuals pay.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/program...ist/index.html
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10-12-2020, 02:48 AM #67
It probably has nothing to do with the pharmacy. Many folks coming into a big grocer for a shot will spend money on some groceries since they are already in the store.
One thing for sure is they aren't losing money on the deal. It's similar to come Thanksgiving and grocers either will give you a turkey for free or very highly discounted if you spend so much in the store.No matter how many men you kill you can't kill your successor-Emperor Nero
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10-12-2020, 08:14 AM #68
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10-12-2020, 11:25 AM #69
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Thanks for the thread guys. It has reminded me to go and get mine.
Currently insulating my garage and having a contractor install 4 new doors in my home so I have been putting this flu shot stuff in the background.Randolph Tuttle, a SRP Mentor for residents of Minnesota & western Wisconsin
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10-15-2020, 02:40 AM #70
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