You have a scrip. Well don't just let it sit there while you price shop. It may expire worthless if you wait.

It's because the mail is too slow. C-II scrips expire after 7 days under federal law. Some states make it even sooner. Those scrips have get to the pharmacy before they expire. That's a very big reason why only a few big mail-order OPs will deal with C-IIs; you need to send them the scrip by Priority Overnight or Red Label service and follow up with a phone call as soon as it's delivered to make sure they have it in the right place and know it's arrived. They'll send someone down to Shipping/Receiving to hand carry it to the pharmacy side.

You know those mail-pharmacy services that come with a prescription card where you send in three months of scrips and get three months of meds for the price of two? Well, at least one of those will handle C-IIs and OCs, but the scrip has to be written just exactly per their directions or else the discount won't work. I know someone who tried it and they lost his scrip and he had to go back to the doctor to get a new one. The doctor looked at him like he was pulling a fast one but he told the doctor to call the prescription service to verify his paper printout from the on-line pharmacy that he brought to his office visit ... it showed that they had logged a scrip in from that doctor as received from FedEx, but they lost the paper scrip before it got to the pharmacy operation so they couldn't fill it. The doctor mumbled harrumph and put the paper in the file. The patient got a new scrip but said he wouldn't use that mail service again ... saving the money wasn't worth the hassle. He'd rather bring it to Wal-Mart which was almost as cheap after adding in the shipping.

The major operations (like PCS) that deal with huge mail volume are like factories. They can have robots fetch the meds and fill the bottles. No lie. It's cheaper to operate once set up, more accurate, and the robots don't steal pills (they just break them and spill them).

Trampy