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getting shorted on prescription refills
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| Janet Price 2005-03-19, 5:34 pm |
| The policy at the pharmacy I use and at another one I checked is that if
they're low on something, they short you, don't document it, and just
ask you to come back in a week for the rest--if that is, they bother to
tell you. This just happened to me for the second time with my fosamax
prescription, which is for a two-month's supply. I didn't notice I'd
been shorted until I opened the bag at home.
When I called the pharmacy to complain and asked why they didn't just
give me half, charge me the copay for half, and let me pick up and pay
for the other half later, I was told that they only bill the insurance
company once. I think what's probably happening is that the computer
program for filing a claim with the insurance company doesn't allow them
to fill half a prescription.
I can see no excuse, however, for their not giving me something in
writing that says I've paid for a month's supply that I've not received.
They tell me they usually try to scribble something on the bag.
Is this happening elsewhere?
Janet
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| Beach Runner 2005-03-19, 5:34 pm |
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Shirley Thebaglady wrote:
> Yes, I noticed that on my Hubbys refills.
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> It says "double counted" even if the prescription amount is less then
> his MD wrote.
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> Hubby's MD gets so mad when the pharmacy shortens the renewal times.
> They have been doing that for a year now.
> So he has been writing 2 separate prescriptions for that Med. when he is
> at his office and we save them until we need them.
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> Once they were out of his Med when we went to pick it up and they told
> us we could get if we went to the next town and pick it up at their
> branch drugstore.
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> You would have heard my Hubby a block away the noise that he made-
> telling them he was not their errand boy and that he is a customer of
> this drugstore.
> That drugstore was so quiet because all the people in lines could hear
> him and gave the clerk a dirty look.
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> If they keep on shortening you on your Fosamax, I would call your
> insurance company or to speak with your MD to see if they can help you.
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> shirley
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Let them know you are a customer and you will take your business
elsewhere. And tell everyone you know. You can fax your prescriptions
to legal internet sites.
Or use KMART, Publix, etc.
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