OTC Equivalents to Prescription Drugs

In some cases, there are OTCs (over-the-counter) medications which a consumer can choose to use in place of a prescription drug. Financially, it’s a question of what your copay is versus the cost of the OTC medication.

The biggest drugs in the past few years to go OTC have been Claritin and Prilosec which are now both available as brands and generics over-the-counter.

I found this list that BCBS of TN had put out which I thought I would post as a link. It does a good job of creating a clean wall chart of some of the alternatives.