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$4 Prescription Medications at Target and Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club
and Free Antibiotics at Publix
Both Target and Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club now offer an extensive formulary of generic prescription medications for $4.00 for up to a 30-day supply. For many students, these low prices may be significantly under their pharmacy plan co-pays (including the Emory Student Aetna/Chickering plan). Be sure to ask your EUSHS clinical provider (or outside physician) if one of these low-priced generic medications may be a good fit for you, particularly if you are nearing your annual pharmacy coverage cap. Your provider may feel that you need the more expensive, newer medication, and therefore not everyone can make the switch to a bargain-rate generic. But it is worth asking!
Publix announced on August 6, 2007 that all Publix Pharmacies will offer free prescriptions on seven different antibiotics for up to a 14 day supply. The antibiotics include: Amoxicillin, Ampicillin, Cephalexin, Ciprofloxacin (excluding ciprofloxacin XR), Erythromycin (excluding Ery-Tab), Penicillin VK, Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim (SMZ-TMP), and recently added Doxycycline Hyclate (capsules only).
You can find a list of the low-price generics at:
Target: http://sites.target.com/images/pharmacy/pharmacy_4dollar_program_list.pdf (closest store to campus is located on N. Druid Hills near Briarcliff)
Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club: http://www.walmart.com/catalog/catalog.gsp?cat=546834 (closet location to campus is the Sam’s Club on Clairmont Road at I-85, membership only; Wal-Mart at many locations throughout metro Atlanta, although none particularly close to Emory)
You can find more information about the Publix Pharmacy free antibiotic plan at: http://www.publix.com/freeantibiotics/ (the closest Publix Pharmacy location to campus is Emory Commons at 2155 North Decatur Road and the Publix in Toco Hills Shopping Center at 2969 North Druid Hills Road)
Revised 03/14/2008
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