That's really interesting because when we got our insurance they REQUIRED that we get a 90 prescription for certain meds AND we HAD to use CVS or a mail order place. What a PITA...
That's really interesting because when we got our insurance they REQUIRED that we get a 90 prescription for certain meds AND we HAD to use CVS or a mail order place. What a PITA...
I retired after working for the same independent pharmacy for nearly 40 years. I loved my customers, friends, coworkers I was manager and head pharmacist for most of that time but the issues that changed thru the years dealing with insurance companies, state and federal regulation/requirements drove me away. The license I worked so hard to earn and was proud to use for so long has been placed on ‘inactive’ by choice. You could not drag me back in to work at a pharmacy.
I went to pick up my pain management scripts from Walgreens and my co-pay for xtampza was $100. With my previous insurance it was $25.00. The poor kid getting my stuff together double-checked everything to make sure it wasn't an error. When he realized that there was no mistake and that WAS actually my co-pay he started apologizing profusely. I was like "Hey, dude, no big deal. It's not YOUR fault the insurance companies are doing everything they can think of to put the screws to ALL of us." He looked at me like I'd grown 2 heads ... And then said "OMG THANK YOU!! I don't even know how to thank you for not yelling at me."
It is sad that people take out their frustration on the kids (yeah, he wasn't even 30, I don't think) behind the counter. I know what it's like to not be able to afford your meds but I never took it out on the pharmacy employees. It's not their fault.
What gets me is insurance companies are now medical doctors and knows whats best for you and will only help if you fall in line with their thinking. Wife has a big go around with them nearly monthly on her medical bill and prescriptions.
That’s exactly what happens. The insurance company inserts themselves between you and your doctor they call the shots as to what’s best for their bottom line not necessarily what your doctor wants or what’s best for you.
Yep. I do battle monthly, also. Between the 20-something little **** who lives in mommy's basement while he goes to "pharmacy tech" school trying to save me from myself by questioning my doctor's prescriptions and how I take them (AS INSTRUCTED -- BY MY DOCTOR -- YOU LITTLE ****) and trying to convince me I just need therapy and a lot of Narcan and the insurance company calling me to "make sure I'm okay" and to let me know I can try meditation, talk therapy and yoga in place of "those dangerous pain pills" it's a wonder I haven't managed to make an appearance on the 6 o'clock news ...
You should hear the dead silence that comes over the person I'm talking to when I tell them a tree fell on me.
That's the only thing that makes all this worthwhile -- cuz 9 times outta 10 I get an apology and "Oh GOD!! No wonder you are taking pain pills!" 
Now? Been dealing with that for my wife for most of the past nearly 41 years. Both Tricare and, for the few years I had it, BCBS.
It helps that the wife worked for a insurance company for a few years and learned alot of ins and outs of the process and then was a LPN for several years in a doc office and had to deal with the pharmaceutical sales reps and she loves to do research and do debates and has a degree in psychology.
I don't have any that I use regularly, but when I get a prescription to fill I use Goodrx.
It is shocking sometimes the price difference among pharmacies. As in one may have it for $19, and others are hundreds.
We have obamacrap coverage and it's useless for prescriptions.
It is shocking sometimes the price difference among pharmacies. As in one may have it for $19, and others are hundreds.
We have obamacrap coverage and it's useless for prescriptions.
