Trading mail order medication
I’m looking for one that does refills correctly and promptly, avoids mistakes, and provides a small amount of customer service (i.e. telephones me back if there are insurance snafus). I had been using People’s Pharmacy, and it seems like 50% of the time they screw something up. This month, they couldn’t be bothered to make [...]
Buying mail order medication for HIV
I sent the fax to Home Care Services on 7 February 1995, and again on 14 February 1995. On 14 February 1995, I spoke to one of their phone reps and was informed that the fax number I was given on 7 February 1995 was for doctors to use in sending in prescriptions. I said, [...]
Can mail order medication be trusted?
OTS just presented a medication cost comparison at our November meeting. We found Chronimed (1-800-888-5753) to be the least expensive for patients paying cash for their meds. Our comparison inluded K-Mart, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, misunderstands. If you call them, tell them your wife is a transplant patient and DOES NOT have insurance coverage for the [...]
Choice for mail order medication services
I was a pharmacy tech for 10 years. Now own a animal hospital with my husband. I have seen some real dangerous mistakes and communication errors made by mail order pharmacies. When they fill with a generic medication they use whatever manufacturer is cheapest, or are supplied with. ie: you get the generic form of [...]
Oregon Group of Institutional Pharmacies To Settle FTC Charges that It Fixed Prices
Five institutional pharmacies have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they unlawfully fixed prices, leading to higher reimbursement levels for serving Medicaid patients in Oregon long-term care institutions. The five pharmacies negotiated jointly through the Institutional Pharmacy Network (“IPN”), the FTC alleged. The settlement of the charges would prevent IPN or its member [...]
Dutch Pharmacies will Supply & Med Insurance will Cover MJ Perscriptions
Starting Monday, pharmacies in the Netherlands are legally authorized to fill prescriptions for marijuana as a medicine. In practice, some Dutch doctors have recommended marijuana for years, mostly to cancer patients as an appetite enhancer and to combat pain and nausea. But it was usually bought at one of the country’s 800 “coffee shops,” where [...]
US insurance companies and pharmacies
The reality of life here in the US is that the insurance companies, and ultimately the employers, are forcing consumers to use mail order pharmacies. For instance, my insurance plan allows me to get up to a 30 day supply from a local pharmacy, but anything more has to come from the mail order pharmacy, [...]
Government pharmacies a bad idea?
ACT New Zealand Health Spokesman Heather Roy today announced that she has submitted an amendment to the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Bill, to prevent Labour from nationalising pharmacies – and turning chemists into state employees. “Health Minister Annette King’s strategy is to encourage Primary Health Organisations and District Health Boards to own their own pharmacies [...]
Pharmacies and pharmacists
The complaint further alleges that IPN negotiated on behalf of its members with four managed care plans and that each of these plans paid IPN members a higher rate than it paid to other institutional pharmacies. According to the agency’s charges, IPN’s members — by agreeing to engage in collective negotiations over price and other [...]
Canadian pharmacies will serve you more money
I am writing this message to make everyone aware of the dangers from obtaining medication from over the internet. I have a friend who has been battling opiate, benzo, speed, and other types of prescription drug addiction. He has been to rehab/detox, but he still finds himself relapsing due to the easy avenue of obtaining [...]
Survey indicates substandard drugs rampant in Nigerian pharmacies
Report notes the quality of medicines available in some less-developed countries is inadequate in terms of content of active ingredient. The reasons for the poor quality of drugs include widespread counterfeiting of medicines in less-developed countries, excessive decomposition of active ingredient as a result of high temperature and humidity, and poor quality assurance during the [...]
Purchasing Antibiotics or Drugs in Mexico pharmacies
Mexico? What do they consider as over the counter drugs that do not require a prescription? I live in Texas, USA and I am looking towards going there to purchase antibiotics…namely (Oral)Ciprofloxin, Diflucan, and Augmentin in large quantities for myself (enough to cover several months)…and also acquiring IV (intravenious) Vancomycin if I can. Can anyone [...]
