MedSavers Pharmacy was created for people who lack health insurance or whose plans don’t include prescription drug coverage. MedSavers offers generic medications at savings of 40% to 75% compared to prices at traditional pharmacies such as Walgreen’s or CVS.

MedSavers keeps its prices low because it doesn’t have the huge inventory costs of traditional pharmacies, which must stock large quantities of name-brand drugs. Traditional pharmacies spread these costs over their entire inventory, including the generic drugs they have in stock. Because we don’t stock expensive name brands, we don’t have those high inventory costs.

MedSavers also does not accept insurance. At traditional pharmacies, dealing with insurance companies takes as much as 80 percent of the staff’s time and energy just to receive payment. MedSavers does not require additional staff to deal with insurance companies. Insurance company contracts often force traditional pharmacies to accept very low profits on name-brand and generic drugs. The pharmacies make up for those low margins on insured prescriptions by charging uninsured patients higher prices. Since MedSavers doesn’t deal with insurance companies, we can make a reasonable profit without charging exorbitant prices to uninsured patients.

MedSavers offers its customers the same prescription drugs that are dispensed by big-name traditional pharmacies. These medications come from the same manufacturers and distributors and have the same FDA approval as the generic drugs sold at traditional pharmacies.

Chris W. Johnson (Owner/Pharmacist) grew up in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and moved to Austin to attend The University of Texas at Austin where he received his Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy in 1995. He is a registered pharmacist (R.Ph.) in the State of Texas since 1996. Through his work in many grocery store and independent pharmacies, and his experience in oncology, Chris has seen first hand how traditional pharmacies operate. There had to be a better way…

Chris and his wife, Bryna, opened MedSavers Pharmacy April 11, 2005. Their mission is to help people without insurance and people with minimal insurance to get their medications as inexpensively as possible.