{"id":345,"date":"2015-06-23T20:31:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/pill-pack-over-a-year-later\/"},"modified":"2015-06-23T20:31:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T20:31:32","slug":"pill-pack-over-a-year-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/pill-pack-over-a-year-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Pill Pack over a year later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you might remember that one of the things that lead up to my having a complete meltdown both physically and mentally was Express Scripts.<\/p>\n<p>No, seriously they were a major contributor.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>The insurance plan I was on, had things set up so that we HAD to use Express Scripts for anything long term.&#0160; Or at least that was the way everything came across.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Pill Pack to the rescue.&#0160; Not only do they package everything in a convenient box&#0160;and everything every two weeks, but they do all the pharmacy benefit fighting for you.<\/p>\n<p>For example, when I needed Celebrex and the insurance company was insisting on killing my doctor with paperwork &#8212; called a prior authorization &#8212; Pill Pack stepped in and handles it.&#0160; They have even hunt down manufacturer programs that reduce the cost.<\/p>\n<p>Now I still get my insulin from the local pharmacy, just for the convenience factor all around but when I do have them ship insulin they do it in a cooler with gel packs the right temperature.&#0160; Express Scripts put the vials in a package, surrounded it with frozen gel packs and hoped for the best.<\/p>\n<p>And best yet, the Pill Packs have always arrived in time.&#0160; There were a few times I wasn&#39;t sure that they would get to me in time, but yes, every two weeks I have pills to start when I need them.<\/p>\n<p>They do have a couple of options for traveling and vacations. They can either ship early or they can ship to your vacation site. I haven&#39;t tried that yet, but I have full confidence.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39; their website:&#0160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pillpack.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pill Pack\"> http:\/\/www.pillpack.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of you might remember that one of the things that lead up to my having a complete meltdown both physically and mentally was Express Scripts. No, seriously they were a major contributor.&#0160; The insurance plan I was on, had things set up so that we HAD to use Express Scripts for anything long term.&#0160; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}