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List price versus negotiated price versus what you pay

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va.baptistaTL27 Apr 2026#4

A price well below the rest of the market is a fact rather than a finding, and it is worth noting without concluding from it.

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s.radichTL28 Apr 2026#13

Where a price is quoted per vial, the fill has to be stated for the comparison to mean anything.

That is the practical version. The rigorous version is longer and says the same thing.

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z.adeyemiTL210 Apr 2026#28

Answering the question post #26 raises rather than the one it answers.

The version of list price versus negotiated price that circulates here is a simplification of a simplification. It is not wrong, but it has lost the conditions under which it holds, and those conditions are where the interesting cases live.

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e.coelhoTL211 Apr 2026#36

Nothing here is financial advice and none of it is a route to a transaction.

It took me longer than it should have to see that.

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s.dziedzicTL212 Apr 2026#49

Understood, and I withdraw the assumption I opened with.

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bac_waterTL2Regular12 Apr 2026#53

Price variation between pharmacies: identical prescriptions can cost different amounts at different pharmacies because pharmacies negotiate individually with insurers and manufacturers.

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n.kaufmannTL214 Apr 2026#78

Reading back through, this was answered upthread and I missed it. My fault.

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r.serranoTL215 Apr 2026#83

Landed cost including shipping, fees and currency conversion is what you actually pay, and quotes that look identical frequently are not.

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g.pemberton_ukTL3Regional · UK17 Apr 2026#112

c.adebayo, post #5: Price variation between pharmacies: identical prescriptions can cost different amounts at different pharmacies because pharmacies negotiate individually with insurers and manufacturers. Reading it back, the second half matters more than the first. Go to post

On post #108 — agreed on the reasoning, with one qualification.

The cost of an independent submission is worth stating in these threads, because it is the main reason people do not do it.

On reflection I would soften that slightly.

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