Until recently I didnt have prescription coverage. I was paying $120 a month for one of my wifes prescriptions at the cash price.
Now the insurance company says the charge is $671 of which I pay a $80 copay.
And the sad part is they really aren’t lying. They probably are being billed $671 because the pharmacist knows that’s the only way to get that combined $120 that they need to sell the drug without losing money. This is also the source of those crazy bills that hit the net periodically where the hospital is charging $100 for a cotton ball, they don’t really want $100 for a cotton ball, but they’ll get $2 out of it which will make up for something else the insurance company “discounts”.