BarbaraOK
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The advantage of a mail order pharmacy is you usually can get 3 months worth at one time - less hassle for maintenance meds. Our insurance is designed to push you into using the mail order as it is cheaper all the way around on most meds. We can only get 30 days at a walk-in pharmacy and each time have to pay a deductible, but can get 3 months with the mail in for the one deductible. We've been very happy with Medco. You can even use them if you don't have a specific insurance company paying for meds.
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mockturtle
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BarbaraOK wrote:The advantage of a mail order pharmacy is you usually can get 3 months worth at one time - less hassle for maintenance meds. Our insurance is designed to push you into using the mail order as it is cheaper all the way around on most meds. We can only get 30 days at a walk-in pharmacy and each time have to pay a deductible, but can get 3 months with the mail in for the one deductible. We've been very happy with Medco. You can even use them if you don't have a specific insurance company paying for meds.
Barb We have Medco, as well, and are very happy with it.
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We use a combination of CVS and mailorder. The controlled are a little more difficult but can be handled with a little planning.
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Pete D
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I used MedCo when I was full timing and I could either have them send it to me directly or send it to my mail service to be forwarded the next time I did a 'scoop and send'. If I needed something right away but also ongoing, like change in thyroid meds, I would ask Doc for two prescriptions, one local to get started and one for MedCo for maintenance.
Hard part was finding a Doctor's office that would take a one-time patient.
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We use Walgreens. You can access your prescriptions online, make your order, choose the store where you want to pick them up, and select the date and time for pick-up. I think it's much easier to do it online than to punch in all those numbers over the phone. Toni
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Find out before you go on the road if you prescription is a controlled drug.Tenn Stud has it right.
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DarkRubiTJ
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Walgreens and CVS might be great but they aren't in all areas of the country. You need to see if they have stores in the areas you are going to be when your current refill runs out. You might have to drive a couple of hundred miles or more to get your prescription filled. It has happened to us and that was using Sams/Walmart. We were in a place where the closet Walmart was 110 miles away and there wasn't a Walgreens or CVS in the state. The nice thing about Walmart/Sams is that your prescription will cross over from either store, and even if you aren't a Sams member you have access to the pharmacy, because it's a federal law that you must be allowed in to use the pharmacy if you desire to.
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trkrhelp
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What state were you in where there wasn't a CVS or Wallgreens in the state?
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Pete D
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Don't seem to be any CVS in Washington, Oregon, Idaho. In fact, their store locator only lists 41 states...
Walgreen's isn't as easy to use, but they don't have one in Alaska.
OTOH, there are Wal*Marts in Newfoundland, out on Kodiak Island, etc.
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trkrhelp
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You're right and thanks for pointing that out. CVS, which we use, is not in all the states, but it does have a simple way to order online and we always get things far enough in advance to avoid a problem so it should continue to work for us.
Just as a point of interest for those with Class II and up prescriptions, you can fill those online through CVS and eliminate the problem with transfering the prescription from state to state. The Dr calls in, or you mail in the original prescription, to their 800# and then you can fill the prescription online.
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