Many years ago, I had read about the idea of pill-splitting to save money. For many medications that come as tablets or pills, it's possible to split them in half (either with a knife or a specialized pill-splitting device) and take a half-dose at a time. The cost saving is based on several assumpti...
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Pill Splitting
Carole Gonzalez
Friday, July 10, 2009 at 02:22 PM -
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Judy
Friday, September 11, 2009 at 12:30 AMTo eliminate ‘insurance fraud’ all the physician has to do is write ‘take half a pill’ so many times a day. Judy
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I take Byetta and some times I will take a third or half a Glipizide 20 just to get my BG down into acceptable range. So there are other reasons to split pills than saving money. It seems that BG depends on what is "in process" as well as what is eaten at the last meal and it is a continual guessing game.