BLOG: Mark Cuban discovers dry eye! Cost Plus Drugs has cyclosporine 0.05%
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Looks like the squeaky (read: annoying!) wheel still gets the grease.
If you are a regular reader of my drivel, you know that I have been poking Mark Cuban, billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks and the pharmacy company costplusdrugs.com, on Twitter. Every time Mark (oh yeah, we’re totally on a first-name basis) posted a tweet-brag about a new generic medication and the associated patient savings available at Cost Plus Drugs, I responded with some snarky version of, “Yeah, whatever, talk to me when you have a solution for all of my dry eye disease patients taking Restasis.”
Well, whaddya know — someone, maybe not Mark but someone, heard me (and probably 10,000 DED sufferers) and put “generic” Restasis on the formulary.
This all came about in a very amusing way. My wife and I were on vacation and about to sit down to dinner with family. Killing time, I took a quick look at my Twitter feed and saw both a reply and a direct message from THE Mark Cuban telling me about Restasis. It’s not every day that someone like me, a country doc out here taking care of my fellow villagers, gets a DM from a billionaire, so of course I DM’d back. You can imagine the shock and delight when a reply came in before we finished our salads.
This is all pretty new, so we don’t know all of the details about “generic” Restasis on Cost Plus Drugs. The cash price is $86.68 for a 1-month supply (which we all know is really a 3-month supply), a thoroughly reasonable price. Is it the generic made by Allergan, and so “real” Restasis (cyclosporine 0.05%)? Or is it “Fauxstasis” made by Viatris? (Quick aside: I have completed my personal evaluation of Fauxstasis and will report my findings in my next post.) I didn’t want to burden my new BFF Mark with these details, so we went to https://costplusdrugs.com/medications/cyclosporine-0_05-box-of-30-vials-emulsion/ and sent in a prescription for one of our staff members. I’ll let you know what we discover about our experience.
To my new bestie Mark, on behalf of a couple million DED sufferers who need an immunomodulator, good on ya for making this happen. If you’re ever in Cleveburg, look me up.
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