{"id":52761,"date":"2022-03-29T13:10:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=52761"},"modified":"2022-03-29T13:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T17:10:44","slug":"publixs-free-drug-program-is-ending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/03\/publixs-free-drug-program-is-ending\/","title":{"rendered":"Publix&#8217;s free drug program is ending"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A notice being handed out to customers in some Central Florida stores this week said, \u201cWhile we are no longer offering medications for free, many will still be available at Publix Pharmacy at little to no out-of-pocket cost with most insurance plans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277671214_10159823021694161_9012058319951261638_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277671214_10159823021694161_9012058319951261638_n-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277671214_10159823021694161_9012058319951261638_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277671214_10159823021694161_9012058319951261638_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/277671214_10159823021694161_9012058319951261638_n.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Brous, director of communications for Publix, did not respond to an email Monday morning asking about the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to some Publix employees, &#8220;citing internal company emails, medications that were free through Publix Pharmacy \u2013 such as amoxicillin, Lisinopril, metformin, amlodipine, and others \u2013 could now possibly cost $7.50 for a 90-day or 14-day supply where appropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A notice being handed out to customers in some Central Florida stores this week said, \u201cWhile we are no longer offering medications for free, many will still be available at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":52762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[1181],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52763,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52761\/revisions\/52763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}