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Florida Pharmacy Offers Generics Online for $3.79

Generic Drug Price War Intensifies

November 3, 2006

• Kmart, Schnucks Expand Generic Rx Discounts • Coming Soon: Generic Drugs from China • Safeway Introduces Generic Drug Discounts • Medicaid Cuts 'Devastating,' Pharmacies Warn • Kroger Expands Its Generic Drug Discount Program • Supermarkets Launch Generic Drug Discount Programs • Drug Prices Can Vary Widely, Survey Finds • Wal-Mart Adds More Generic Drugs To Discount Plan • FDA Finds Problems with Online Drugs • Wal-Mart Expands $4 Generic Program • Walgreens.com's Pharmacy Gets Top Rating • Popular Blood Pressure Drug Goes Generic • Wal-Mart Expands Generic Drug Plan • Consumers Get Little Drug Price Information From Their Doctors • Florida Pharmacy Offers Generics Online for $3.79 • Wal-Mart Adds 12 More States To $4 Drug Program • Wal-Mart Expands $4 Generic Drug Program To 14 More States • Report: Shopping Around Beats Medicare Drug Prices • Drugs by Mail: Money Saver or Rx for Disaster? • Wal-Mart Expands Its Generic Drug Discounts • Feds Give Up on Canadian Drug Crackdown • Target Matches Wal-Mart's $4 Generic Rx Price • Congress OKs Drug Shopping Trips To Canada • Seniors Bemoan "Donut Day" • Wal-Mart Cuts Generic Rx Prices To $4 In Florida • AARP: Drug Prices Still Rising • Illinois Sues 48 Drug Companies • Pharmacy Benefit Managers Scrutinized • Survey Shows Value of Comparison Shopping --- • Medicare News

The price war for generic drugs continues to heat up. A Florida pharmacy says it it will beat Wal-Mart and Target's new lower prescription prices by a minimum of 5 percent, and will sell the generic drugs they are offering for $4 to consumers for only $3.79.

MyFloridaPharmacy.com said its prices on most other drugs will beat not just the two U.S. giants but many Canadian Internet pharmacies as well.

"Starting today, we will beat Wal-Mart and Target on the price war they started in Florida, and we are prepared to ship these drugs at these low, low prices to people across the United States," said Milton R. Benjamin, managing director of MyFloridaPharmacy.com.

The prescriptions will be filled and shipped by an independent pharmacy, Prescriptions Plus of Wellington, Florida, which has been licensed as a community pharmacy by the Florida Board of Pharmacy for eight years.

Prescriptions Plus is currently able to ship prescription orders to more than half of the states, and is seeking approvals in states where it is not currently licensed.

Benjamin said MyFloridaPharmacy.com also intends to select seven of the drugs from the Wal-Mart list each month, and as that month's special, provide a two-month supply -- instead of Wal-Mart's one-month supply -- for $3.79.

Benjamin said there is a charge for mailing most prescriptions (orders above $99 ship free). But MyFloridaPharmacy.com said it has discounted the shipping charge to equal the average national cost of one gallon of gas (currently about $2.30).

"Most people cannot drive to a Wal-Mart or a Target and back on a gallon of gas, so we are beating the giants not only on prescription prices but on the cost of getting the medications as well," Benjamin said.

"Our prices on virtually all U.S. prescription drugs -- brand name or generic -- will be the lowest to be found at any American pharmacy," Benjamin said.

"The best news is these low prices are on American drugs, approved by the FDA, with prescriptions filled by a licensed Florida pharmacist, and shipped to you from within the United States," Benjamin added.

"When you get your drugs from a Florida pharmacy, you don't have to worry about whom you are dealing with, what you are getting -- or whether you will actually get it," Benjamin added.

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