"$1,000 per pill in the US, $4 per pill in India".
That's the end price paid by the patient. It's actually worse than that. When I first started working in pharmacy, this would have been around 1997, I once happened to see an order invoice that was laying on the accountant's stack of paperwork.
It was for the generic of Tylenol #3, that is, regular strength tylenol with 30mg of codeine added- a common opiate painkiller for after dental surgery. The *wholesale* cost listed: $0.02 per tablet. Yes, you read that right- 2 cents per tablet. The 'standard formula' charge to the patient? Five dollars per tablet.
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Prescription Drug Costs
Date: 2022-11-02 01:12 am (UTC)That's the end price paid by the patient. It's actually worse than that. When I first started working in pharmacy, this would have been around 1997, I once happened to see an order invoice that was laying on the accountant's stack of paperwork.
It was for the generic of Tylenol #3, that is, regular strength tylenol with 30mg of codeine added- a common opiate painkiller for after dental surgery. The *wholesale* cost listed: $0.02 per tablet. Yes, you read that right- 2 cents per tablet. The 'standard formula' charge to the patient? Five dollars per tablet.