Pumbaa wrote:
> My local Wal-Mart Pharmacy is still filling my Rx for generic digoxin 0.25
> mg. tablets with the brand named Lanoxin. The Lanoxin brand causes me to
> have to pay about a $9 Co-Pay while with Digitek my Co-pay was zero.
>
> Why has WM been unable to get in a supply of Digoxin made by another company
> like Teva? They said they only order from two sources and they can't get
> Digoxin.
>
> Is this because the local WM Pharmacist is not permitted to order drugs from
> anywhere that does not give WM a special price break?
>
>
We haven't been able to get Lanoxin brand. Back in May, we ordered a
couple of thousand generic digoxin (in both strengths). It was Caraco,
and we've been working off that inventory since. Who knows what we'd get
now.
Eli
Eli Yoder, R.Ph