Kimber
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I went to the Dr. (at HMO) about two weeks ago my regular Dr was out that day. I saw another in the "Group" who wrote my prescription with a refill. My regular Dr. would write a slightly larger qty but never a refill.
She wrote 1 - 2 every six hrs for pain. There is #30 (qty) with one refill. If I took 5 / day there is only 6 days worth and I could refill then.
My friend says refills have to be one month from fill date. I only use them on bad days so it is not a huge issue.
What is the correct answer. I live in a smaller town and sure dont want to be known trying to fill a prescription early. It would make the front page! Yes, I cant believe that I have never had a script with a refill before.
Thanks in advance! Kim
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Trampy
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Your friend is wrong. You don't have to wait 30 days to refill a scrip for four days worth of meds (at 2 pills every 6 hours). Under federal law you don't have to wait any days at all. It'd be legal under federal law to give you all #60 at once if that's what you wanted and you were paying cash and the pharmacist thought it was reasonable ... like if you were going out of town. Prescription plans usually require you to wait until 5 days before the pills are to run out before getting a refill. For a 30-day scrip, that'd mean you could use your insurance to pay for a refill at 25 days. But you didn't get a 30-day scrip. You got a 4-day scrip. So just call the pharmacy and ask when you can get your refill. It won't make the front page.
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Billyl
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My primary doctor used to write me Qty 30 10/650's and right on the bottle it said 4 to 6 day supply I could refill on the sixth day never had a problem and it was with an HMO.
Take care. Billylll
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midnight
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Kimber, My rx refills have always been refilled according to the directions on the bottle. If it says you can take 1 every 4 to 6 hours--then you could be using 4 to 6 a day, and the rx is for 30 then you would need a refill in 5 days or so. My insurance will refill if they figure you could have used 75% of it.
midnight
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parusski
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KImber in most cases it is simply an issue of your insurance covering the cost. That is what I encounter. Example-some doc recently wrote for twenty .5mg xanax: to take two or three daily, as needed. That could obiously be gone in 7 days. But the insurance company refused coverage on the refill 11 days later-rule was 30 days. Simple, We called doc, told him and he cancelled orginal refill and wrote another for 90 .25. The insurance people were so pissed, but they had no choice- new prescription and enough meds for a month. The dr just told the patient "You abuse them, fine, but you get no new prescription from me for 30 days. There are all kinds of ways to "screw with the insurance company rules. Just have to be creative.
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Kimber
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Thanks everybody I won dinner, we bet! The reason she said her statement is she was always written 30 day scripts (ie 60 @ 2 day) so of course she always had to wait a month (about) to refill. Makes sense.
I fill the script at the HMO's in house pharmacy so there is really no insurance to file. I just pay the flat $5, but they mostly give you generics. These last one were 5/500 with a cursive "V" I think it is Vintage. (not the best)
Thanks again K
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