How do other full-timers handle medical care? I don't stay long in one place, but I've recently had to go on a medication that is going to make my life hell. It's one of those restricted things that you have to have an actual written prescription for, and you can only get a month at a time, no refills, etc. I can't be the only person who's had to deal with this sort of thing. How do others handle it?
Doctors will not tell you this but they are allowed to write a three month prescription as long as they are separate and dated for the month they are for. There are so many scamming the doctors for drugs they can sell that doctors do not like to write three month scripts because they do not want the public to know they can even do it. Mine does it because I have going to him for so long and my condition will never get better.
radardog wrote: Doctors will not tell you this but they are allowed to write a three month prescription as long as they are separate and dated for the month they are for. There are so many scamming the doctors for drugs they can sell that doctors do not like to write three month scripts because they do not want the public to know they can even do it. Mine does it because I have going to him for so long and my condition will never get better.
This is correct, Just ask your doctor. I have two types of cancer I been fighting for 5 years and I live where I want so we use Walgreen's
and get a written prescription for 3 months at a time no matter where we are.
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Could the doctor phone or fax the prescription to a Walgreen's or Wal-Mart, then no matter where you are, I believe, a national pharmacy can pull up the prescription from any location. I'd see about getting a 90 day prescription if possible. Not sure when they will or can do them, however. If you could just call your doctor when you need a new one, the doc could phone or fax a prescription at his location which could be found on a national pharmacy's computer net work, or maybe the doc could even sent it to a pharmacy in a different area. No harm in asking.
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DesertHawk wrote: Could the doctor phone or fax the prescription to a Walgreen's or Wal-Mart, then no matter where you are, I believe, a national pharmacy can pull up the prescription from any location. I'd see about getting a 90 day prescription if possible. Not sure when they will or can do them, however. If you could just call your doctor when you need a new one, the doc could phone or fax a prescription at his location which could be found on a national pharmacy's computer net work, or maybe the doc could even sent it to a pharmacy in a different area. No harm in asking.
Our Doctors office is completely computerized. He sends prescriptions to the local Walmart, via Internet, with his signature on them.
We have Medicare with Part B and joined "Aetna Medicare" our prescriptions cost $1-4 and we can pick them up in any Walmart in the country. Sometimes they call the one in Cottonwood AZ, where they are on file to verify them. He knows we are "On the Road" so makes them for three months all the time. Then, just sends another authorization in email to renew. He also gives us a CD for $10 with our complete medical records, medication, etc, on it, in case of emergency and we have to see an Aetna doctor on the road.
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dragonflyspit wrote: How do other full-timers handle medical care? I don't stay long in one place, but I've recently had to go on a medication that is going to make my life hell. It's one of those restricted things that you have to have an actual written prescription for, and you can only get a month at a time, no refills, etc. I can't be the only person who's had to deal with this sort of thing. How do others handle it?
I have no health insurance at all.
For dr's visits & any prescriptions, I rely on low-cost clinics.
About $10 per visit and most clinics have a pharmacy w/ reduced rates on generic drugs.
For 6 years I have been dealing with a specialist in another state.He writes my prescriptions for a 6months or a year.Some are for 30day and some are for 90 day. I just turn it into Walmart locally and if I run out when traveling the WM where we are logs in and the refill is mine.I've been told if I talk with my phamacist at WM and explain we will be on the road and if I need a new prescription my Dr faxs to my local WM,they log it in,don't fill it, and where ever we are the new WM can get the prescript transfered. I hope this helps.
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