Med D formulary prices changing on medicare.gov during signup

[annon123]

A client came to me with two printouts from medicare.gov of drug prices looking at Med D plans. Some of the prices had changed from one print out to the next (they were done about 2 weeks apart).

This is the first I heard that medicare.gov had different prices over time for the same D during sign up (of course I hadn't gone looking either). Has anyone else noticed that this happens during sign up? Hopefully it's not all that common of an event. I did warn him that during the 2025 D year the formulary can change so be prepared for that.

 

[straightnochaser]

A client came to me with two printouts from medicare.gov of drug prices looking at Med D plans. Some of the prices had changed from one print out to the next (they were done about 2 weeks apart).

This is the first I heard that medicare.gov had different prices over time for the same D during sign up (of course I hadn't gone looking either). Has anyone else noticed that this happens during sign up? Hopefully it's not all that common of an event. I did warn him that during the 2025 D year the formulary can change so be prepared for that.

Formulary can't change until March 1st.. I have never liked med.gov for drug searches

 

[annon123]

Formulary can't change until March 1st.. I have never liked med.gov for drug searches

That is what I thought (formulary can't change yet). I told him just like his current plan states on the website, when he checks drug prices, that these are estimates likely that also applies what he is seeing on medicare.gov. I told him that in gathering all the information for so many companies and D's nationwide probably mistakes were made and that was what he saw; presuming that was true the mistakes were being cleaned up by someone (probably by the actual plan company in what they sent to medicare.gov catching typos, etc). He was good with that. I was just wondering if others had seen that discrepancy on medicare.gov. I had never run into this before.

 

[Special Agent]

A client came to me with two printouts from medicare.gov of drug prices looking at Med D plans. Some of the prices had changed from one print out to the next (they were done about 2 weeks apart).

This is the first I heard that medicare.gov had different prices over time for the same D during sign up (of course I hadn't gone looking either). Has anyone else noticed that this happens during sign up? Hopefully it's not all that common of an event. I did warn him that during the 2025 D year the formulary can change so be prepared for that.

possible reasons if it is drug with a percentage copay would be market price change or sometimes different locations of the same pharmacy used

 

[annon123]

possible reasons if it is drug with a percentage copay would be market price change or sometimes different locations of the same pharmacy used

Thanks. I hadn't though of the percentage copay/market price explanation and I didn't realize that the same pharma chain in the same town might have slightly different prices.

 

[riders_onthestorm]

Formulary can't change until March 1st.. I have never liked med.gov for drug searches

what do you use? I am going to lose it if we do one more year of that trash. But everything from our fmo's- sunfire, csg, etc. only have 1 pharmacy??? It's lunacy. But that what I said about medicareDOTgov the first time I saw lookups! LOL