Jan 20
BCBS gave me approval to get the two meds Gage needs (tomorrow) for another month. That gives me plenty of time to work out yet, another way to obtain drugs in the every-changing world of raising kids with special needs.
So, hardly any time at all. It only took 2 hours, 4 call backs, talking to seven people and arranging one courier for today (Cost $8.00, much better than the hour it takes me to get there and back) and complete follow up with the local pharmacist.
I’m glad they worked it out for a month, but blerg! I am so sorry you had to go through that, and that it isn’t an isolated incident.
While I didn’t have the fight that you did, I was unhappy to be told I had to use mail order last year. Then Dr. Brain told me that the company I had was actually wonderful. And it was. After I sent in the initial form from that point on Dr. Brain handled my scripts directly. All I had to do was every 3 months go online and click a few times to refill. Prior to that I was in the pharmacy at least weekly, usually twice a week.
I am now in the last bit of the mail order stuff (well, I’ve got a few months with some because when I got fired she agreed to order me a double supply (1-2 per day of what I took once) of my most expensive med ($1800/month) as long as promised to give it away to a safe person if I was suicidal, so that I wouldn’t have that expense twice while unemployed.
I’m DREADING the whole pharmacy thing. I can’t tell you how much.
Hopefully this will be your experience as well.
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