Someone just told me that they had to pay $100 “interview fee” at a pharmacy to be accepted as a patient. WTF? have you heard of anything like this yet?
here is what i was told the “policy” is: it was a fee for pharmacist to review your records and tests etc doctors have done to decide if they agree with what you get and If he believes you need it and if they will fill your scripts and other treatments they want you to try etc…….And they said I have to change for 30mg ****** to 20mg ****** and increase my ******* prescription And the pharmacist said he wants me to try the spinal cord implanted stimulator.
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Same thing happened to me when I was no longer wanted as a customer bc of this below. I went to a few family pharmacy and they wanted me to see the owner
ive filled four complaints against the pharmacy in general. The last complaint which was made because the main pharmacist in charge was on vacation so, of course there was another “temp pharmacist”. I came in 1 day before my refill was due and as the pharmacy technician like always has to ask the pharmacist “temp” at this moment and its a C2 controlled substance. I know that They have the medicine in stock but after the temp pharmacist looked at my prescription, without even looking by checking the safe where the regular full pharmacist has to go to fill it. He bluntly lied to my face and informed me that he didn’t have that prescription in stock and like the majority of pharmacist assumed I’m some drug seeking addict.. But, anyways I first informed him that sir, you do I fact have it in stock as the main pharmacist keeps it in stock as I get it filled every month. I then continued to direct him to please actually open the safe under you and actually look. Guess what…? He has it!!! Go figured right. Then, as I’m still standing there with people other customers behinde me, he looks at my prescription and looks at the bottle of medicine that he said he did t have then looked at me and loudly asked from the middle of the pharmacy area ” WHAT ARE YOU GETTING TREATED FOR??” He DID NOT ASK ME TO come to the CONSULTANT DESK and I was already embarrassed by the way he was treating me then I had to loudly answer back where everyone else in line and also picking up their rx in another line could hear and know all of my medical problems and personal health and private information. After I told him what I was getting treated for he finally filled the rx..of course I had to wait over 30 minutes as I’m sure he wanted to verify the rx whih is TOTALLY fine with me and should have either done that in the first place and or ask to see me at the consultation desk and ask me what I’m getting treated for. I’ll never forget this and nener forgive cvs for this..Tim the temp pharmacist was in the wrong, violated my
Hippa rights, and treated me unjustly. After I left I was mortified, embarrassed, depressed that I had to go through this. I looked up if there was anything I could do and I got advice from pharmacist Steve stating to file a complaint regarding CVS ciolsting my hippa rights and also I filled s complaint with the Louisiana board of pharmacy. Well, after CVS got a call from a compliance officer and spoke to the main pharmacist Jessica … I got an email from the compliance officer stating he spoke to Jessica and asked her to cal me and try to resolve the issue. About an hour later I do get s call,but Jessica just says she no longer feels comfortable filling ANY of my prescriptions.
I will continue to tell my story regarding I was treated, labeled, and punished for filling s complaint. The point of complaints is to be able to provide feedback and the store or company to better themselves and their customer service.. But, now I have to drive about over an hour round trip to get my prescriptions now. Lawyers tell me that it would cost me more money to possibly just slap them with a fine. The compliance officer and to the companies that I have submitted s legit complaint did nothing to help the consumer.
I hope that And know I’m not the only one out there and I pray and hope that something can get done to this pharmacist and temp pharmacist along with cvs.
Thanks for your time in reading this
Sincerely,
Ronnie M
Please support your local pharmacy sand not these big chains as they don’t give a two craps about your health or you as a human being
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Covington LA 70433
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Are you kidding me? Really? I am so horrified,but let’s just say, ok I’ll do that and then this pharmacist changes all the meds or reduces the amounts and the patient/customer has a bad reaction. I would think that this pharmacist and pharmacy is wide open to a malpractice law suit and practicing medicine without a medical license! Morgan&Morgan—–>for the people!
since my rx’s cannot be filled locally where I live I had to go mail order. There law is the extended release has to be more than the instant relief. I think after all I am going thru this put me into shock but I have no other choice at this time.
I know of no law that says extended release has to be more than instant relief. I think you are being sold a nogus bill of goods. And who says you cannot get ypu scripts filled locally, there is a law called patients right to choice
This same thing happened to me. I live in a small town that has 6 pain management providers in the 60 mile radius. Two of them require referal by a local primary care physician (will not accept a specialist referal) and the other 4 either do not accept medicare or do not accept full assignment. So 5 years ago I located a pain management doctor which I used to see in Georgia that recently moved to Florida, but was 125 miles from my house. However, this pain doctor does accept Medicare assignment and knew my medical history. I began having the “doctor to far from my residence” reason for not filling my prescriptions then when I tried to fill them near my home I was told they could only fill prescriptions for local doctors. So I went to the mail order pharmacys and for the first year I had no problems until the mail order pharmacy faxed my doctor that they had a new rule that there had to be an 80/20 mix of extended release to immediate release pain medication. I was taking 4 80mg er oxycontin and 4 30 mg morphine immediate release per day. The mail order pharmacy told my doctor that he would have to reduce my MSIR to 3 per day for them to continue to fill the prescriptions. My doctor explained to them that I had been on 30 mg oxycodone for over 10 years before he began treating me and he does not prescribe that medication because of abuse potential so I needed the 4 30mg morphine because I took 2 at a time to be approx. equivalent to the oxycodone. The pharmacist would not agree so my doctor tried to increase the 80 mg oxycontin to 6 per day so that I could keep the 4 30 mg MSIR and still be at the 80/20 required mix. The pharmacist told my doctor that they would not fill the 80 mg oxycontin prescription if he increased it to 6/day and accused my doctor of trying to get around the regulation. My doctor then asked me to check with my insurance and see if there was a quantity limit and I found that my insurance had a 180 pill 28 day limit on the oxycontin and I would have been fine at the increased dose. My doctor was furious because he knew the pharmacist had no justifiable reason to refuse to fill my prescriptions either way. My doctor researched and found there is no real maximum amount of oxycontin in opiod tolerant patients and since I have been taking it since 1999 I was definitely opiod tolerant. My doctor insisted on filing complaints with the pharmacy board and every other agency he could, but I asked him not to since I would not be able to continue to get my prescriptions filled if he filed complaints. As far as I am concerned this is definitely practicing medicine without a license by this pharmacy. Even if it could be legal for the pharmacy to establish the 80/20 mix it would still be illegal for them to refuse the increased oxycontin prescription soley because the pharmacist thought the doctor was “tyring to get around the new requirement”. Doctor’s commonly modify the usage and doseage of medicatons to get around certain rules like insurance quantity limits, off label uses for medications, and etc.
It has to be more how?
I had to agree to an interstim device that was implanted into my body. It was part of his requirements. I was also made to see a pain psychiatrist. I do understand that we need to be careful, but I believe it has gone way past the ‘ok’ mark.
OMG……PharmD does not equal MD Hello!!!!!!
I WOULD NOT COMPLAIN OR EVEN WASTE TIME FILING A COMPLAINT.
IF THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO ME I WOULD IMMEDIATELY FILE A LAWSUIT…PERIOD…END OF STORY