I am pretty sure I recall them also checking with Walgreen's and the price was not much different.... but I dunno. I just know that now its covered.
We only had him on it for about a month. Oh, I recall now... We had a month's worth of samples, and it seemed to be working well for him. I was working with his SpEd teacher, and the 2mg dose was too much for the early morning, but he needed a boost around lunchtime. So the doctor wrote a script to give him 1mg in the am, and another 1mg around noon - which is why it was $500 - my ins would pay nothing.
That was back in the spring, so, we haven't had a chance to really try it for any length of time yet, but its the only medication that hasn't absolutely backfired so far. I just picked up the script today, so we'll be trying it again soon.
This is my Wee difficult child. He's 8 now. And the report I'm getting from school today suggest I may not be giving him this tomorrow, either. Darned dentist....grrr. It takes so little to absolutely turn his world upside down.