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The perks of home delivery Get more -- Depending on your plan, you can get up to a day supply of medicine instead of a day supply. Your HR person may also be able to help you get that one month you paid for taken care of. We need way more posts like this to bring to light the problems with the current healthcare system. Kudos to you for writing this. Most people have no idea how severely broken the system really is.
There is something really wrong with cvs pharmacy specialists drug I call F B I on them, see if get a billion dollar law suite going out this evil Empire OUT.
And going on every major TV station. The majority of group plans are self insured, in which case the employer is paying the claims and not UHC or Caremark and the employees share in the cost. We have UHC and we do get a pamphlet every year that lists the drug classifications. RA drugs are specialty drugs and most group plans have it set up so that specialty meds are delivered to you to cut out the cost of the retail pharmacy.
Specialty med programs are also set up to have a customer care person reach and and contact the insured with any questions. If there is a broker who assists the HR dept that broker is making thousands of dollars in commissions and is there to help the HR person with employee issues.
Have them do the legwork for you. They will be able to do the complaining that a letter was not sent out and that you are out of pocket. Thank you for this. Something has to be done. These companies just can not decide to stop covering certain meds or determine how a patient can receive the medication. This is a very scarey slippery slope. Ah, yes.
Take care of yourself —. Exhausting and soul-crunching— I agree. Our health care system is broken and criminal. Sending you hugs, Jessica… and you too Elizabeth. You most definitely should have received paperwork from UHC about the pharmacy change.
Typically, we receive paperwork around September regardless of whether or not we plan to change health plans. Open enrollment is in October, which sort of makes it odd that they gave you the letter stating that as if Medco was going to be around come the first of the year.
Have no fear though, before our family had Medco we had Caremark through Blue Cross. I never had a single solitary problem with Caremark. THEY made the decision to go with whatever Rx provider was cheapest. They determine the formulary of drugs that will or will not be covered. United Healthcare does not have a great reputation for being patient advocates. They are, like most health insurance providers, all about their bottom line. And the Universal Healthcare Bill has all of them running scared and disallowing whatever they can before it takes complete effect.
Every time I go to the doctor to get medicine to relieve a cold, I constantly have to call the doctors office because Medco refuses to pay for anything but generic.
Medco is so cheap they harass my family members about changing their meds to generic because it is cheaper for Medco, but not what the doctor is prescribing. A family member recently ordered meds from Medco directly explaining to them and even faxing over a prescription for Requip?
Did the physician write the prescription with the comment, dispense as written. May ask why you are so insistent on branded over generic drugs? I have a medication I need regularly to manage chronic back pain.
I just called — this morning— to have my medication transferred. My hope is that you will continue to fight this through United Healthcare! THEY are the ones to blame as well. Peace on your journey— I know too well how painful it can be! This seems more to be an issue with your insurance provider, and not an issue with CVS Caremark. Your provider made the choice to go with what they thought a cheaper, more cost-efficient prescription service. I am so sorry you had to go through this Jessica : While I know all too well about prior authorizations, it is ridiculous that they are attempting to say you will not be reimbursed for what you were forced to pay.
The poor girl had to beg her father for the money to be able to get her medicine. While I think I go through hell with my medical, I have no reason to complain when it comes down to situations like this. I think you you are misinformed. The pharmacy does not make decisions on the PA — the formulary and decisions including how long the drug will be approved for are made by your insurance company and not CVS Caremark or Medco.
I think if you are writing a blog, you should ask appropriate questions and publish correct information since this can be easily conveyed to you by the pharmacy or your insurance company. The pharmacy facilitate the process of getting the Prior Authorization of the drug, but ultimately your insurance company United HealthCare sets the rules. CVS is Caremark. I think you should respond and publish correct information when posting comments in blogs.
Hi Jessica. I came across your blog today. I work for the Caremark division of CVS Caremark and I am very surprised you are not being reimbursed for the retail fill. I say this because every prior authorization record has an effective and termination date.
My client, Blue Cross, allows me to adjust the effective date to the date of a rejected claim to so the pharmacy can rebill us and reimburse you or you submit a claim to us and we reimburse you directly. Whether UHC allows that would need to be researched. Also, UHC has the option to sign up for Maintenance Choice, which allows patients the choice of picking up their mail order drugs at a CVS or having them home delivered sort of the whole premise behind the merger of the 2 companies.
Again whether UHC elected this benefit would need to be researched, which I would need your approval to do so. Let me know…. If you were truly informed about your prescription coverage as you should be, then you would know that is obviously the result of: 1.
You not taking the time to read your open enrollment materials. You really should do your research before you place blame on the messenger.
This story is way too familiar to me. As a consumer what recourse do I have? Stop paying my health insurance benefits? All I have left to do is obtain copies and threaten them with a lawyer?
So in the meantime my cholesterol goes untreated, my heart disease gets worse and CVS Caremark meets or exceeds their bottom line? Actually, what you are saying is the exact opposite of true. It of course is sad that you have a condition that requires a specialty medication.
But to lie about and slander the employees of Caremark could cause you to get sued. You should be careful about assumptions, they are almost always wrong. The people that answer the phone at CVS Caremark specialty department are all licensed pharmacy technicians, just like the person behind the counter at your pharmacy. There are several pharmacists on staff for each specialty team, and several RNs as well for someone having a medical reaction and not in need of pharmaceutical counseling.
The UPS driver puts a box near your door. A box that was packed by, again, licensed pharmacy technicians, under the supervision of Pharmacists, just like your local pharmacy. The only difference? Some of these medications have to be kept at specific temperatures, some have to be handled with special care and while wearing protective equipment or while use flowhoods. The technicians at your local pharmacy?
They have no training in these matters and have none of the special equipment. These machines and refrigeration systems cost thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The ability to operate them comes from training and hours of tutorials and safety procedure training, all of which, again, your local pharmacy can not provide their employees. CVS Caremark does provide that and they have some of the best trained staff anywhere.
When you call in for your RA drug, you speak specifically to a RA team member. Meaning this licensed technician has taken advance training on RA specific drugs and symptoms. This team member knows as much, if not more, about your medical needs than you do.
Since they all took the time and the training to learn about your needs as a patient, you think you might take 5 minutes to learn how their pharmacy operates before lying all over the interenet about them?? Those folks answering the phone are a step above the phone bank in India, or maybe a step below, but certainly they are not who I want to talk to. Sue me for saying that idiots answer the phone at insurance companies.
Unbelievable that you would threaten and try scare tactics. I know Caremark did not teach you that, so you must have brought that to the table all on your own.
Time to find your humanity again. Such a shame. Learn about Rx coverage, what your Rx will cost, and how to save. Explore options for refilling your Rx. Find information to help you take your medications safely.
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Martin's Point Generations Advantage is happy to offer a network of pharmacies with. This network is not limited to CVS pharmacies , but includes more than 67, participating pharmacies. Discover all the perks of medicine home delivery and our mail order pharmacy. Health 6 days ago Network. Your State of Illinois health plan does not require or mandate that you utilize a CVS pharmacy as there are over 68, participating pharmacies in the network.
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