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Post by Pete on Mar 8, 2024 10:48:11 GMT
If you’ve been prescribed medication for an illness or chronic condition, you know how crucial it is to stick to a schedule. It’s even more important to make sure the pills you’re taking are the correct ones and the right dosage.
Even one mistake can not only be dangerous, but also potentially deadly! Because the stakes are so high, you need to be on alert when it comes to your prescriptions.
This article is going to give you some advice on how to protect yourself.
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Post by dave2 on Mar 8, 2024 21:06:43 GMT
I don't even go into the pharmacy any longer. Pick-up prescriptions at the drive-through window.
They ask for your name and birth date, bring you the prescriptions that they said were ready (phone call). Off you go. Never, in the last few years, had an error for either my wife or my prescriptions.
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Post by Pete on Mar 8, 2024 23:16:04 GMT
Dave, I've not been in one either for Rx meds in years. I don't use any myself but I used to pick 'em for Carrie.
Now she's a member of Senior Life, a medical facility for providing care for older folks, where they provide any health service she needs.
Including her Rx meds that are delivered to our door monthly.
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Post by dave2 on Mar 9, 2024 3:33:44 GMT
Hard to beat that system !
Hope Carrie is doing well. Give her my regards.
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Post by Hank on Mar 9, 2024 3:52:07 GMT
I been on 90 days for years now.
So some months the trip is not needed.
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Post by Pete on Mar 9, 2024 12:27:11 GMT
Dave, Carrie's Rx meds come in a box. Inside is a plastic roll with individual pockets. Each pocket contains the pills needed for each time of day; Morning, Afternoon & Night.
In addition to the home-delivery convenience, the meds don't cost her anything. They're all paid for thru her health insurance. So no co-pays.
Yeah, Carrie's doing well. I'll give her your regards when she wakes up. Unlike me she's not an early riser.
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Post by Pete on Mar 9, 2024 12:34:03 GMT
Henry, I recall those 'time to refill' days. Until a few years ago, before the home delivery of Carrie's Rx meds, she had 4 different ones I had to keep track of. Noting refill dates & counting pills so as to know when to have each one refilled. Then calling her doctor to request a refill, waiting two days for the call to be made & the refill to be ready at the drugstore, then driving there, picking up the pills & paying the co-pay. So actually the now home delivery benefits me the most since I no longer have to do any of that.  |
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Post by Hank on Mar 9, 2024 19:54:06 GMT
Pete your over the counter med card, did it expire on 12.31? And did it have much left on it?
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Post by Pete on Mar 9, 2024 23:19:19 GMT
Henry, well, it doesn't exactly expire. Rather, the funds on it can run out. Then on January 1st $300 is added to it. Each new year. For OTC supplements & such, as you've said.
I had none left on mine in December. During that month I had $10 left. But then I got a supplement that was $20 that I paid cash for. Then I mailed my receipt to UPMC & was reimbursed.
What ate up my funds was also using it to pay co-pays at doctor's offices. $30 each visit. So I'm not going to do that anymore.
For Rx meds I've got a PA Pace card. PACE is a program for seniors to cover those. With mine I'll only every pay $12 for any prescription or $8 for generics.
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