Great comment - your wife is awesome!!

Im using that line ( even though it will be a lie) if they ever try to come for me, thats genius

Filling orders in more ways than one, am I right? *Sorry*.

Jesus I wish I could have said this when I called for my patients back in retail pharmacy.

Your wife is amazing!!!

This is the exact reason I'm willing to pay more and suffer the "inconvenience" of going to get them.

@@Scavenger82 I just started paying for my medications out of pocket. I consider it paying for the convenience of never having to speak with anyone from Express Scripts again.

@@noahfense oh my gosh! Express scripts sent me all 3 of my future refills for a topical medication when i only needed 1 refill so 3 tubes expired since i couldn't use up my other one fast enough🤬

I My partner and I used Exact Care. I finally decluttered the excess amount of his meds and dropped off at pharmacy that helps very poor. Otherwise they would have expired.

That's what you call "damned by faint praise"!

This made me laugh so hard I snorted!

OMG....I have UH DC.....they would NOT leave me alone lol

What makes you think I have enough money to pull out enough quarters to get them far enough away from me? Lol

@@caidalee1994 Pennies then?

I actually have a whole bunch of money down in my wine cellar :) don't mind the bricks

Lol, yeah, I was totally expecting him to go all rabid dog on that bill.

There like vampires they cant cross the threshold unless invited in

😁

As a former customer of an independent pharmacy until my insurance decided only certain chain pharmacies can fill prescriptions (and not even WalMart or Sam's so sorry for people who only have that as an easy option), OR we can have our Scripts delivered Expressly, thank you for all you do.

Knowing diseases is not a pharmacist's job. They more often waste a doctor's time than do anything useful.

Definitely thank you real pharmacists, I don’t trust mail order thanks to needing a pharmacist to go argue with doctors and dentists to remind them I’m allergic to amoxicillin, despite me telling them three times before I left, including while on heavy sedation and anaesthesia (lidocaine only works if it’s enough to get me high thanks to genetics). Or reminding the doctor that they just prescribed a med that has a major interaction with another med they also prescribed. 😂

I go to my independent pharmacy because they have chairs and a table to sit at if there is a line. Which may be 2 people long. I was using Walmart and switched in the pandemic, because, even then, the line was horrendous. And, at the little pharmacy I can get a Peach Fanta.

@@sophierobinson2738 you can get peach fanta at your pharmacy? Damn, mine doesn't even have water plumbed into a water Dispenser.

I'm sure of it! In our part of country we can have over 100 degree heat or minus 40 cold, that's a huge variation. Nevermind delays due to weather which could occur anywhere!

So, if the patient had seizures during those three days while unmedicated, well that's just part of Humana's great service, correct?

I don't have a problem with my mail order prescriptions but then again I use Walgreens which is the same company as my local pharmacy.

@@d.f.4918 NOOO never never never sign up with Walgreens ever, it's a nightmare, I spent literally hours cry-screaming at people on the phone to try to get them to cancel things I never approved

@@litsci1877 I’ve had so many major issues with Walgreens and now I have to use them or mail order! I loved my local pharmacy!

Thank God in Europe we can legally get out of any unsolicited orders. If they ship you something and claim you ordered it, you can in turn claim a failure in transmission or process and return it / deny payment. In the US I get the sense that they'd kidnap you and force-feed you the meds if that means they can afterwards bill you for them

That sounds like the start of some kind of dystopian story. Oh wait, it's just another day in the US. Did you contact the other person to let them know what happened?

Welcome to the US.

Welcome!!! 💚💚💚

yeah no, everyone in the US gets those automatic message spams dw ! just ignore em

If the message comes from your pharmacy you can ask to not receive those calls when you pick up your next prescription; if it comes from your insurance company you can ask to not receive those calls by calling customer service or asking to stop them if an actual human calls you. I used to get "helpful reminder calls" from my insurance company if I didn't fill a few key medications a week before the refill date on the bottle, and if I ignored the call for a while and finally answered after my medication was supposed to have run out they would always press me as to why I hadn't filled it yet and if I had enough medicine. Yeah, my doctor appointment didn't quite synch up with my refill schedule so I had a few extra weeks worth. "Oh...Do you want us to call your pharmacy right now and connect you so that you can refill it? It's no charge and we'll connect you directly to the pharmacy team." No, I'm good. Oh, and can I stop getting these calls please? They're pretty annoying. "Sure. At ____ we want our focus to be on you."(or something equally cheesy).

Welcome to the states! Happy to have you here, and I am so, so, deeply sorry for all of the nonsense you have and/or will experience here.

It’s called lobbying. And payoffs too most likely.

@@Sashazur Oh for sure. We owned a small independent pharmacy for 20 years and I cannot believe the change we saw in that time. It seemed like even if there were lobbyists who were "on our side", they were NEVER on our side.

I think in the same way that we allow people to sell colorful plastic with salt and fat on it.

​@@romanandresgonzalezgutierr6406 yeah your comment makes no sense friend

Thanks Republicans

Oh, its far worse than that. I take a schedule II; the insurance still makes you do it via mail order, but you can only send the prescription to them when you're almost out, and each month it takes 2 to 3 weeks to process the order for it to arrive. Imagine being without your medications for almost a month.

@@teh_dav2179 yeah no fuck that

The mail order pharmacy will send it, but it has to be signed for by an adult - and that adult must have their ID available. Too bad if they try to deliver while you aren’t there…

@@teh_dav2179 there have been numerous news stories about a shortage of Adderall, so if that's it, that would explain why it has been taken so long. They can't fill what they don't have in stock.

@@teh_dav2179 I am almost in this situation with my new heart meds-- not a controlled substance (if you use too much your heart would just forget what electricity is, so... not really something recreationally viable) but I struggled to find a pharmacy who would actually order it without screwing up the order or freaking out about the physician authorization -- my cardiologist's office was deeply confused by it, as was I, because for once the insurance company got back to us so quickly I actually got _double_ confirmation notices in the mail. My current grocery store pharmacy, the only one that actually managed to get my medication for me at all, messes up my medication every month; frequently doesn't stock it and has to order it in late/give me a partial refill; has a trainee that works late who will habitually input my information wrong and then snap at me for pointing out that _I do kind of need 60 pills_ for a 30 day supply of a 2x daily medication and can't really afford to pay full price TWICE just because he didn't order the full amount of the medication in AGAIN, and therefore only had five pills to give me, but just charged me for the full 60 pills....which I promptly return then and there so I can actually afford the full amount when it comes in. I just want the thing that keeps my heart from beating too fast, man. I am at the point of sometimes skipping doses strategically because I know I won't get more until potentially a week after I run out, because if I call early they screw up the order, and if I call later the order's late. I cannot imagine if that took three weeks; I would probably just resort to driving to the hospital and filling all my medications there, maybe, cost be damned? Scary to think about...

Don't expect much counseling if you go to a CVS or Walgreens either. They've shrunk their employee hours down so much that the staff just plain don't have time to talk to you.

@@falconerd343 I pick up my specialty meds at CVS and the pharmacy tech seems genuinely annoyed that CVS exists lol

@@falconerd343 more like they cannot find enough employees to hire. Pharmacists and Pharmacy Techs are in high demand, at least in some parts of the US.

@@Rosarium2007 its not a staffing problem, its a wage problem. Theyre being paid peanuts but required to have degrees and are far too overbooked. Even when they are not understaffed places like Walgreens will only give them the hours for the bare minimum staff and expect them to do a full staffs worth of work.

In America, medications don't come with instructions inside about the dosage and how to store it?

I highly recommend placing in a residency then... Hospital jobs are pretty competitive right now, and usually you need to know somebody and get a good recommendation to get into a decent hospital job. Though at the hospital I work at all our residents get preferred treatment. Meaning, if you do a residency with us, we are going to try and hire you. Though, be prepared because pay will not be as good as in retail. Sometimes 10-20k less than starting at a retail position. Still, personally, CVS/WAG could not pay me enough to deal with the amount of crap retail pharmacists do on the daily.

Get out of pharmacy before it's too late.

I don't think pharmacy will one of the brink and mortar hold outs - same day for antibiotics is so desired.

@@oxnyxws same day shipping is a thing already I’m not so certain that the desire to start medications immediately will prevent it from becoming online dominated.

Because of my medical condition I do appreciate being able to get my medications mailed to me, but I very much value by local pharmacy. I'm going to start start getting my prescriptions delivered from my local pharmacy.

Here in Sweden we have pharmacy chains where you can choose to physically go to a pharmacy if you need a consultation. If you know what you need you can just log in to their website with your online ID credentials and order what you need, shipped right to your door, or nearest post office. Which is really convenient for me as a liver transplant recipient 10 years post op. I know what I need and how to take it haha.

Question from Germany: Do different Pharmacies in the US have different prices for the same thing? (Like, say, Ibuprofen from the same manufacturer in the same strength, with the same brand name).

@@RevCode Oh for sure, we don't have pricing regulations for anything. Ibuprofen is over the counter, but pricing on everything is going to be different even between different stores in the same chain

Just checked- CVS has 20 advil brand ibuprofen gelcaps for 80 cents less than Walgreens

@@nicolainielsen7700 My parents actually did deliveries as well, usually for elderly patients, or those who had trouble getting around (especially in the countryside). Either in the evening or after closing, one of them would take the car and drive to the nearby villages around the pharmacy, bring our costumers their medication and such. When I still lived with my parents, I helped too, going to everyone I could reach with my bike and later my first car.

Cant you apply for medicaid or medicare since your disabled? You wont have to deal with that nonsense anymore if you get approved for it. Im a college student and i work, i was able to apply for medicaid for myself and my child and i have the option to use it their mail order pharmacy called cvs caremark , but i dont. I prefer to get my meds to an actual regular store pharmacy and medicaid always pays for it.

@@Sadames03 I don't think I'm eligible for Medicaid, I have insurance through my spouse's employer.

You forgot TikTok star

@@dennysmith3787 I'm not on Tiktok--I see those vids on YT! 😀

It could... but the state of influence that the mega wealthy had and the horrific history of the Supreme Court on ANY case involving the mega rich (seriously look it up I think the Supreme Court has sided with wealthy side on financial cases 100% of the time) meaning we would need some real reform before we can curtail their constant consolidation and amassing of all the capital.

underappreciated comment

I have heard horror stories about UnitedHealth

Isn’t that illegal? AFAIK health plans have to fully cover a predetermined list of immunizations……

That probably depends on the contract with the pharmacy. There is probably another pharmacy where United will pay the whole cost of administration, but the patient may have to call United to find out where.

@@NickCBax they have to cover it Somewhere but it's always somewhere that they own.

United WILL cover a flu shot but you have to be absolutely certain to space every 2 immunizations you need out per year. Which means your flu shot will always be cash payment or full price, even with the highest band of coverage UHC offers. I HATE THEM. Their dental care sucks, their medical insurance sucks, if they offered house, car, or life insurance, I'd sooner grate my face off than use their services ever again. They are technically the cheapest insurance carrier in the U.S but that cheapness comes at a price. They overcharge you relative to the services you have to gouge them in the eye balls to provide. (Even when it's covered and the clueless Health Insurance Rep. claims that it "isn't covered by your plan".) Ask me how many times I have sat on the phone for hours to get something covered by them.

Good God this is just horrible

Ugh, once when I was sick as a teen the "preferred" pharmacy was out of my meds. So was the next closest in that chain, and the next and the next and the ne...... The closest pharmacy in that chain was 150 miles away. Or a different pharmacy 2 miles down the road had it. My mother was out of town and my father was trying to reason with the health insurance rep on the phone that leaving his sick kid home alone for over 6 hours wasn't an option. It ended up "only" being about $100 so he ended up just paying out of pocket. Complete and utter bullshit.

Yep, then along came Reagan…

I feel this in my soul. I used to be on Medicaid and always got 90 day prescriptions from my local pharmacy no problem. Got on Caremark last year and they cut it to either 30 day prescriptions in store or 90 through mail order. I switched over and sure, I still get the 90 days, but only over a week after I run out of essential everyday medication. Every single time. So helpful... Ugh...

a healthy patient is a patient who pays less on healthcare

ಠ_ಠ 21 days at a time? That's ridiculous.

MDs in the US (unless there is some state law to the contrary in your state) do have the discretion to write 90-day scripts (some drugs are 84 days) for Schedule II drugs. They might have extra paperwork or such or be limited in the number of patients they can do it for, I'm not sure of the fine print details, but they can do three month supplies. Three months later they have to send a new script to the pharmacy for the next three months. Wash, rinse, repeat.

I get 90 days of adderall through Optum. Also the only place that has it in stock

@@Sb_747 not quite - there are pockets available elsewhere. Problem is finding where. The fact they’ve stockpiled is a real problem though - especially for patients with Caremark/CVS prescription coverage. For some reason CVS really doesn’t have any sense of humor about patients using OptumRx.

​@@Rosarium2007Florida has gotten really hinky about controlled substances. And my sister has to take her husband to the doctor EVERY MONTH to get a new prescription for the oxycodone he's been taking for years for a shoulder replacement that has never been pain free.

Might depend on your state. In mine, we can dispense up to 90 days of a C-2, it's just that most insurance will only cover 30, so we do the multiple scripts thing. Also, doctors will only prescribe that much at a time when they're sure it won't be abused

Spend a day or two on the phone with their customer service. Tell every representative that you speak with that you will sue them for harassment of your mother if they don't stop calling. It makes me furious that these companies are so greedy and have to take advantage of our elderly. I had to deal with the insurance for my husband's grandma for a long time, it was a headache all the time. Good luck!

No way! Wtf!? That’s horrible!!!!!

100% truth. My insurance doesn’t even give me an option. I have one mail pharmacy choice and if you don’t use it, they don’t cover anything. Not even generics. I have lots of nasty allergies and they are supposed to be following a procedural checklist to keep me safe. I literally had to submit safety violations to my state on every refill last year. It didn’t change anything. So my personal mission this year has been to cause my insurance extra expense. In this case, the insurance and pharmacy are the same company. Every time they send it out without the checklist, I call. They try to reassure me that it was done and I state that if it isn’t in writing in my package, it never happened and my meds aren’t safe to take. They have to resend (at their expense) all my meds. I thought it would only take one time doing this considering my meds cost about $4500/month. They screw it up every month despite assuring me it won’t happen again. It is my personal mission to hit them in the pocketbooks until they either get better or give us another option.

@@jessicawiseman6908 good for you! The only thing that hits them is their pocketbook... You'd think that they would pick on the trend at some point!

Especially in the middle of an opioid epidemic. People see medication delivery and hope they’ll get lucky.

That's absolutely disgusting and has to be illegal!

That's gotta be illegal. Impersonating another company. This could actually be grounds to sue.

This is just not true. If you like one plan over the other, just change your plan.

@@ghiansudelo2590 did you read the op post? She never said she wanted to switch to united health care. She said united health care lied about who they were when phoning her, stating that they were instead another insurance company called humana

That explains the obnoxious calls I got all year. It got bad enough I actually considered trying to call Humana to complain.

Exactly. I used to work for a pharmacy and we were more than happy to send out a 90 day supply- provided 1) that's an option your doctor gave on the prescription, and 2) your insurance was willing to pay for it. Neither of which we had any say in as the dispensing pharmacy.

He's going to be lurking around your back door at night, sniffing the cracks...

Wtf! I was thinking a difference of $5-10…but $90? That should be illegal!!!!

@@jennifergraceh I'll give you another example I'm also low T in store $40 home delivery...free. it's damn near criminal

Good to know!

Can a Doordash driver pick up and deliver my prescriptions, or just over the counter medications?

@@Sashazur the few times I've done it it was prescriptions from the pharmacy of a Kroger and if someone isn't home I just brought it back to the pharmacy

Can you take them to small claims court over that? Demand compensation for any difference in price, for the delay in getting your meds relative to when you went to buy them, for the emotional damage of worrying that you wouldnt be able to get your meds because they fraudulently claimed your prescription without informing you, for the time you wasted finding out what had happened, for defrauding you by selling you goods without your consent, and for the time you have to waste going to court over it. Should be able to get at least a few hundred dollars without needing to hire a lawyer.

@@SovietReunionYT Especially if it's THEIR mail order pharmacy. Optum rx doesn't deserve to win this one.

@@SovietReunionYT The thing is, in such a scenario that’s kind of the prescriber’s fault for sending the prescription to the wrong pharmacy first. If we change pharmacy practice so that billing cannot be done before contact with the patient for every fill of every prescription, wait times for prescriptions are going to get a lot longer very quickly… Maybe that’s what we want to do, but at least be aware of the trade-off we’d be making if we choose to go that route.

@@KirisutonoNeko Medical assistant here. Sometimes that happens when a patient asks for a refill but doesn't specify which pharmacy to send the medication to. Sometimes they have 2 or more pharmacies listed. They get mad at us in the office, but if I ask if they specified which pharmacy, the answer is usually no. We're not mind-readers, either. Medication requests done through automated phone or patient portal will default to the first pharmacy listed for the patient.

@@michelleponzio That makes sense. Thanks for sharing that perspective, and sorry for my first line putting all the blame on your side of things.

Correct! Because admitting they made a mistake MIGHT open them up to a lawsuit.

Big screen adaptation...Why am I envisioning Ryan Reynolds playing both parts?😏

I imagine they are looking at how the US is cutting costs while lowering the quality of health care. It's all about money.

@@suemilkbone4868 it's all about rerouting money to insurers. Because the US is one of the most expensive systems in the world, and it doesn't have good, accessible care for all. If it was about using money for good health care, stay the hell away from the US setup.

😢 sorry to hear that.

All pharmacies are owned by a person. They aren't suddenly less human just because you get inconvenienced.

I have had the supplement for 6 1/2 years and this is the first time I have heard of it. But my Part D zMedicare is BCBS. The supplement doesn’t cover drugs.

@@Brineytoes I meant to say Medicare advantage plan, senior moment there.😅

Good luck with your Advantage plan, and remember that there's a window of time where you can go back to traditional Medicare if desired. After that, you're probably out of luck.