Category: Medical Issues

I called Customer Service and they told me to tell the local pharmacy to fill my depo prevera as 1 for 30 days.

The local pharmacy had gotten an email telling they couldn’t fill Depo because it had to go to the mail order pharamcy. In other words, since it was a 84 day script, not a 30 day script, they won’t be reimbursed.

So we’re in a catch 22.

And here’s the more fun part … through mail order it’s $43.29 and I paid $55.69 (I was wrong on the $53.00).

So yes, I save money by going through mail order, but man, if I forget to reorder there is no window at all.

Maybe this will work out better.

Sigh… Here’s another one of the formulary things….

Yesterday I needed a Depo Prevera shot. One shot is good for 12 weeks (84 days). Of course, nothing is covered at my local pharmacy unless it is written for 30 days. And if I go through the mail order pharmacy, it’s about $15.00 higher.

Weird? or What?

So I’ve got to track this down and fight it, because I got charged $53.xx instead of $30.00

And I’ve got to go back to my doctor and tell him to write the script for 30 days!

We ran into this a few years ago. I need to be on Deflucan every day for a month. Well, the doctor thought it only came packages for treating normal yeast infections and wrong the script for that.

The local pharmacy rejected the third refill and gave me all kinds of guff and stress. Finally the pharmacy actually thought for a second and said — if your doctor would write it for THIS form of Diflucan it would be covered AND it would have been cheaper.

Why didn’t they say that the first time … and of course, they wouldn’t refund anything for before.

I got my insulin yesterday. And I have to brag on Caremark on this.

I ordered the refill online this weekend, first day it became available. It was filled on Tuesday and FedExed on Tuesday evening.

Was dropped on my doorstep about 2:00 pm, and when I got home at 4:00 pm, not only was it still there, but the ice packs were still solid.

The really nice thing, is that I could see the status on the internet of the entire shipment from the time they accepted it, and until it arrived at my doorstep.

That really reduces the stress — though I have to admit the tracking of the shipping part of it is FedEx, not the pharmacy.