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My employer and insurance company are forcing mail in pharmacy with a cost increase of one medication of $62. I'm being told the cost increase is due to the convenience of getting the meds by mail.. it isn't a convenience if I'm being forced into
Joshua supported: Stop Forcing Mail-Order PharmacyI have commented before and I have a new comment for today. The healthcare organization that we use offers their own specialty pharmacy, which is good because it keeps us away from the big ones, but our insurance still forces us to use it and they are still predominantly a mail order service.
Since we live within a certain range, they use a courier service to deliver prescriptions the same day they are filled (you call the day before, they fill, pack, and deliver the next day, or whatever day you choose. I called them Tuesday for delivery on Wednesday for two injectable prescriptions for my wife, which she is due to take on Friday, and one for me, which is a simple refill.
Mine arrived no issues.
Hers did not. Sometimes they arrive quite late, between 9 and 10 pm, so I last checked the front door at 11 pm. Nothing. We accept most packages at the side door, but I have been told that they cannot take "special requests" for delivery, they can only deliver to the front door. I checked the side door around 10 just to be sure anyhow.
Today is Thanksgiving. We had planned on not being here but plans changed last minute. Thank goodness because the package showed up sometime this morning (last night?) at the side door! If our plans had not changed or I had not had to check the side door, the package would have continued to sit there, in the rain, until our return, most likely going out of temperature range!
This is unacceptable and easily avoided just by allowing me to get our prescriptions at our local pharmacy, which we had been using for years for these prescriptions and continue to use for all our other prescriptions!
Sam supported: Stop Forcing Mail-Order PharmacyAs a Certified Pharmacy Technician that works in a semi rural independent pharmacy. We have seen so many commercial insurance companies require mail order for maintenance medications, but independent pharmacies can't run and operate on filling random antibiotics, controlled and narcotic medications. Some of our patients that can afford to bypass insurance to fill with us, but with the economy and inflation many are forced to go the cheapest route to try and save money. Pharmacy choice should ALWAYS be up to the patient.
Katie supported: Stop Forcing Mail-Order PharmacyI own a small independent pharmacy. The practices of the PBMs FORCING my patients to go to their mail order houses is killing me, and my patients!
NONE of my patients prefer mail order. NONE.
kathleen supported: Stop Forcing Mail-Order PharmacyAs a patient half-way through a long-term, daily maintenance medication plan that involves expensive copays and OOP payments, and extreme temperature control of medication to be most effective, as well as extortionate insurance premiums, it is criminal of my high level insurnace plan to suddenly try to force me to use mandatory mail order through which the timing and temperature control of this very costly medication cannot be guaranteed. Sick patients should not have to deal with the stress of constant monitoring often incompetent and careless delivery services. I need a guarantee that the medication plan I have already invested my significant effort, time, and money in, will continue to be the most effective for my health. My local pharmacy provides that.
Christine supported: Stop Forcing Mail-Order PharmacyBeing on VA medical is just like being an E-1 all over. You have zero say in your life as it pertains to the level of healthcare you receive or how you receive it. You take what you get and are made to feel like you should just simply be grateful you get anything.
Mail order isn’t any cheaper. It just lines the pockets of large corporate pharmacies and taking away veterans’ choices to utilize local pharmacies in their areas. It also means delays in getting medicine. This is just another sign of the failure of our elected representatives in Congress to do right by the People, but they never miss a chance to do right by their own pocketbook.
Signed,
MSgt Brian N Castleberry, USMC Retired
Brian supported: Stop Forcing Mail-Order PharmacyI have Alpha Gal Syndrome, which is a severe, life threatening allergy to ALL mammal products and their derivatives. Because medication ingredient sources are not clearly disclosed on packaging, I have to research for hours which brand and variation is safe for me. Even with research, the answer is usually still unclear, and at most a "best guess", as the information comes from 3rd party sources or word of mouth from others with my same allergy. Contacting manufacturers is more difficult than it seems, and their customer representatives cannot give clear answers as their liability is on the line, as well as, manufactures supply chain ever evolves and is inconsistent, (ingredient sources may vary from mammal and/or plant derived, dependent upon the current market). For these reasons, I call upon medicine manufactures to make the manufacturing and label change to help their consumers make healthy choices, feel safe, and build confidence in medicine brands and their products.
Ashley supported: Pharmaceutical companies: Demand more transparent labeling for animal-derived productsI have Alpha Gal syndrome and taking a medicine with animal by products can kill me. What is worse is that many doctors are unaware of the scope of this syndrome. They just think don't eat meat and you will be ok. They fail to realize that drugs can harm or kill us too. With proper labeling at least we can advocate for our own health. Instead of playing Russian Roulette every time we need a medication.
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