Annual fee for finasteride prescription?

[kirk]

Hey All, first post here.

I decided to bite the bullet and get on finasteride. I contacted an hair transplant Doctor in my area (Dr. Cole). After an online picture consultation, they told me that there is an $85 annual fee for the script. :thumbdown2:

Does this sound right?

I'm not exactly in the market for an hair transplant anyways. Should I contact a dermatologist instead? Thanks for reading.

 

[Cassin]

Sounds like his version of a Dr.s office visit, which if so, is reasonable.

 

[kirk]

Yeah... If that's the case, I wont complain. I noticed your profile says Atlanta. Have you had any experience with this organization?

 

[Cassin]

I get my meds through my dr and pharmacies. So no I don't!

 

[pidda]

I get 30x 5mg finasteride for $9. So that is a four month supply if you cut into 1/4s. So that is roughly $2.25 per month... which is roughly $27 per year.

 

[Cassin]

online?

 

[pidda]

online?

Wal-Mart presrcribed

 

[Cassin]

really......wow! Good thing I just moved all my prescriptions there.

However even with this you have to factor in the yearly Dr. Visit to your cost. If you don't have insurance that can be very costly.

 

[pidda]

really......wow! Good thing I just moved all my prescriptions there.

However even with this you have to factor in the yearly Dr. Visit to your cost. If you don't have insurance that can be very costly.

Yeah my insurance is hellza ballza tho so it's not a problem.

 

[sc64]

Hey All, first post here.

I decided to bite the bullet and get on finasteride. I contacted an hair transplant Doctor in my area (Dr. Cole). After an online picture consultation, they told me that there is an $85 annual fee for the script. :thumbdown2:

I had a in person consult back in march and got a script for finasteride while there,didn't cost me anything for the consult or the finasteride but have had work done by him years ago and will again in Oct,I took the script to walmart also and got the 5mg finasteride for 4 months at $9.

 

[kirk]

Hey All, first post here.

I decided to bite the bullet and get on finasteride. I contacted an hair transplant Doctor in my area (Dr. Cole). After an online picture consultation, they told me that there is an $85 annual fee for the script. :thumbdown2:

I had a in person consult back in march and got a script for finasteride while there,didn't cost me anything for the consult or the finasteride but have had work done by him years ago and will again in Oct,I took the script to walmart also and got the 5mg finasteride for 4 months at $9.

Thanks. I'm not sure why they told the script would cost $85. I wanted to talk to an hair transplant Doctor because my Doctor at the VA is pretty cluless about finasteride. I'm thinking they are wary of me because I mentioned that all I am really interested in at the moment is medication treatment.

 

[sc64]

Hey All, first post here.

I decided to bite the bullet and get on finasteride. I contacted an hair transplant Doctor in my area (Dr. Cole). After an online picture consultation, they told me that there is an $85 annual fee for the script. :thumbdown2:

I had a in person consult back in march and got a script for finasteride while there,didn't cost me anything for the consult or the finasteride but have had work done by him years ago and will again in Oct,I took the script to walmart also and got the 5mg finasteride for 4 months at $9.

Thanks. I'm not sure why they told the script would cost $85. I wanted to talk to an hair transplant Doctor because my Doctor at the VA is pretty cluless about finasteride. I'm thinking they are wary of me because I mentioned that all I am really interested in at the moment is medication treatment.

As Cassin said in his first post of the thread more less a fee for a visit for the advice of treatment, that's what a derm probably would have charge just to give you a script for 5 min of his time.