Swallowin_Klonopin
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- May 28, 2018
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Hey all,
Sorry if this has been talked about, but I just went to the pharmacy with a script from my Dr for (30) Hydrocodone/acetaminophen 7.5/325; the script said to take up to (3) per day (giving me 10 days worth. She intentionally did this because our next visit was in 10 days).
The pharmacist told me that the feds are cracking down on opioid scripts and now only allow insurance companies to cover (7) days worth of opioids; only (2) times in a (2) month period... Meaning you could only have pain meds 1/4 of the time.
So I asked him how people with chronic pain all the time get their meds. He said they either pay for them out of pocket, which I won't do (the 21 he did fill we $3 - if I wanted to get the full 30, since insurance won't pay for any of it, I would have had to pay $53... Not gonna pay $50 for 9 pills) or if they didn't want to do that they went to their doctor and had then send a "prior authorization" form to my insurance company to allow the prescription of opioids over the governments "allotted amount".
I called my doctor and the Dr and assistant are out for the day so I thought I'd see what you all know on the subject in the meantime.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Sorry it was such a long post.
TLDR: Anyone have experience with "prior authorization" for opioids from your doctor and insurance company?
Sorry if this has been talked about, but I just went to the pharmacy with a script from my Dr for (30) Hydrocodone/acetaminophen 7.5/325; the script said to take up to (3) per day (giving me 10 days worth. She intentionally did this because our next visit was in 10 days).
The pharmacist told me that the feds are cracking down on opioid scripts and now only allow insurance companies to cover (7) days worth of opioids; only (2) times in a (2) month period... Meaning you could only have pain meds 1/4 of the time.
So I asked him how people with chronic pain all the time get their meds. He said they either pay for them out of pocket, which I won't do (the 21 he did fill we $3 - if I wanted to get the full 30, since insurance won't pay for any of it, I would have had to pay $53... Not gonna pay $50 for 9 pills) or if they didn't want to do that they went to their doctor and had then send a "prior authorization" form to my insurance company to allow the prescription of opioids over the governments "allotted amount".
I called my doctor and the Dr and assistant are out for the day so I thought I'd see what you all know on the subject in the meantime.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Sorry it was such a long post.
TLDR: Anyone have experience with "prior authorization" for opioids from your doctor and insurance company?