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Survey Shows `Huge Disparity' of Drug Prices at Florida Pharmacies.
Publication: The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) Publication Date: 23-MAR-01 |
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COPYRIGHT 2001 The Miami Herald
Byline: Michele Chandler
Mar. 22--It pays to shop around when it's time to get your prescriptions filled.
That's the finding of a recent statewide survey commissioned by the nonprofit Florida Council on Aging. The survey found that prices of prescription drugs can vary dramatically from city to city, with substantial price differences even showing up in drugstores in the same community.
"There's a huge disparity," said Margaret Lynn Duggar, executive director of the not-for-profit advocacy organization, which paid an outside research firm to poll 170 pharmacies in 11 Florida cities last month. "The message is for the consumer to be wise."
The study included Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West...
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