Current Excuses And Explanations From Pharms In Jax Please For Methadone Other Pmeds
UpdatedThis has been going of for so long now. I found that the only recouse we have is to complain to your State Board of Pharmacy. Every state has one. Its the pharmacies that are withholding. Not the DEA. The DEA does NOT put any amounts on the pharms either. Maybe their distributor does, but not the DEA. In this thread, im hoping to find, hear feedback regarding current pharmacist behaviour and excuses and what they say to you about your medicine. If we use Company names it will flag on Google and come out publicly. We can also compare their BS. Here is the latest for me.
Smart pharmacy is one of the few pharms now taking ADVANTAGE of this medication 'shortage, unavailability' whatever you want t call it, yet act as if they really are here for us the ppl the customers. But heres their real motive /scheme. I also found them a few months ago. I was in the same situation as many of you here. They agreed to fill methadone for me if I transferred 2 non narcotic prescriptions to them. I of course agreed and even transfered my most expensive ones. (Well I have ins so I didnt know at that time just how much they charge for medication compared to other pharmacies.....
Anyway....yes they required me to split my prescription into two prescriptions and come every 2 weeks or every 15-17 days to fill. BECAUSE.... the pharmacist explained the DEA ONLY ALLOWED THEM TO DISPENSE A MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TABLETS AT 1 TIME. For me that # is 140. Ill just bet that number is different for that other poster here somewhere since I think I read he gets 160 each time. And heres why. Its NOT what the DEA allows them to do, its what MY INSURANCE COMPANY WILL PAY FOR. You see, prior to going to Smart Pharmacy I was paying cash, my insurance didnt cover my medication. Or so I thought. (they didnt cover the quantity) But I wasn't complaining because compared to other meds $53 a month was a great deal to me. I was happy to have my meds and go without cable.
Well Smart Pharmacy looked over my info, and discovered just what amount of tablets my ins WOULD cover, and gave me that BS story about their ability to only fill so many at a time, and sent me back to my Dr to circumvent the system; to have me ask/require him to rewrite the prescription so they could get paid MORE MONEY. Its ridiculous! Ive actually finally found a GOOD Dr. I dont want to upset him or make him mad. OR GOD FORBID make me look like a drug seeker addict because of what Smart Pharmacy requires me to do. But I did it anyway. Because I needed my medication and they agreed to fill it.........
They now charge my ins company twice a month $120 or more per prescription. 135 tabs. When I was making these changes I never knew my ins was involved though. Not until I filled my prescription and I WASNT CHARGED for the medicine!! They said my ins covered it! That is when I started putting it all together. My ins wont pay for all the tabs together in 30 days but they will pay for half that amount every 17 days!!!
AND......THIS WEEK They informed me they could no longer fill my methadone AT ALL UNLESS I transfer ALL OF MY MEDICATIONS TO THEM!! Because the DEA requires them to do this. Oh, btw they dont want me to transfer my Percocet prescription to them.She didnt say why. She just said "you can just leave that at such and such but you must transfer all of your others to us in order to fill here. I asked them What about the 2 that I already transferred? They just looked at me. So I continued. The pharmacist said that he would fill my prescription if I transferred 2 non narcotic prescriptions to your pharmacy and I did. Both are worth over $800 a month. She replied " Oh we would never put a NUMBER on the amount of prescriptions....."!!!! LIARS argh!!
I heard through the grapevine they CANT, NOT WONT, fill Oxy or Roxycodone containing medication because theve been santioned for selling Compounded Roxycodone caps and Manufactured Roxycodone tabs. As a Pharmacy, you are only allowed to do one or the other so now they can do NONE. SO if you go to Smart, prepare for THAT, and to at some point be forced/blackmailed/threatened into sending all of your business to them. They are in no way convenient for me. I already beg a ride twice a month. Id have to go every week almost for all other meds! They deliver but it $3 per med. Im interested if anyone else has this experience with Smart Pharmacy in Jacksonville Fl ans what THEIR amount of tabs is they get filled.
Id like to file a complaint with the Fl Board of Pharmacy im soo sick of these schiesters messing with us.
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