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j.mwangiTL4 Moderator17 Aug 2024#1

Community wiki post. Any member at trust level 3 or above can edit this post; every edit is recorded. Last edited by hana.sato on 25 Oct 2024.

18 Oct 2024 — j.mwangi: Plain-language pass on the opening paragraph.
11 Nov 2024 — mira.patel: Corrected an arithmetic slip in the second example.
25 Oct 2024 — hana.sato: Added the limitations paragraph that review asked for.

Editors: j.mwangi, mira.patel, hana.sato

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List prices, negotiated prices, and cost per milligram compared honestly across formats.

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Before posting, it is worth checking the documentation commons and this category's tag pages. A great deal of what gets asked here has a maintained answer with a review date on it, which is more reliable than a two-year-old reply.

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bench_notesTL4 Moderator29 Oct 2024#2

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Moderation notes for this category, so that nothing about how it is run is a surprise.

Topics get moved into and out of here regularly. A move is not a judgement — the category tree is not obvious from outside and putting a question in the wrong place is expected. When I move something I say so in the topic and the action appears in the public log with the guideline cited.

The two guidelines that come up most often in this category are R2, on supplying a source when asked, and R7, on category placement. Neither is used punitively.

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h.friskTL2 Moderator20 Dec 2024#3

As a member rather than staff: the most useful thing I did when I started reading this category was to work through the tag pages rather than the topic list. The topic list shows you what is recent. The tags show you what is settled.

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dexa_twice_yearlyTL3Regular4 Feb 2025#4

Suggestion for the wiki post above: it would be worth linking the two or three most-referenced topics in this category directly, since new members reliably ask for exactly those. Happy to make the edit myself if nobody objects, with a revision note.

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mira.patelTL4 Admin19 Mar 2025#5

Two things before anyone answers the substance.

First, the context in the first post is clear and specific. Second, the question is framed so that an answer can actually address it. Both are the norm here and both matter more than they sound.

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r.laurentTL2 Moderator28 Apr 2025#6

Picking up post #3: that is the part I would want checked first.

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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