Have you heard of pill splitting? It’s a simple technique that is saving people tons on health care costs. It’s been seen as an underground kind of practice and some health care folks claim it’s unsafe. But that’s not true. Now United Health is offering patients the choice of having pills cut in half when they fill a prescription. If a patient is willing to do that, the prescription costs half as much. Previously, people had to get double the dose and split the pills themselves. There are actually pill splitting tools out there. But now, insurance companies are getting on board with this idea. If you have to pay for medicines out of pocket, ask your doctor if it’s available. It won’t work for every medication and specifically for tablets, but United Health now offers 16 prescriptions that are split in half and cost half as much.