Hello everyone I am new to this site, I will get right to the point I live in Michigan and I am prescribed 120 Norco every month, my question is can I get to earlier he feels in a row through my insurance? Last month I got an early refill by calling my insurance and telling them I am leaving the country , and they refilled it within 12 days of my last script, now this month I have to do it again, I just got my last refill on May on the 28th and now it's June 7 and we're leaving the country on the 13th so I need my refill before the 13th !!! Because we will not be back until next month so I will totally go without and that would ruin our vacation !! What should I do ? Should I go to a different pharmacy and just say I don't have insurance ? Or should I call my insurance company again for the second month in a row and explain the situation ? I still have the hard copy paper prescription from the doctor if that helps !! Thank you so much
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Bliss26
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Wow. No easy answers here.
It's not usually insurance that's the problem, it's the pharmacy. IE Insurance will put through your script far earlier than most pharmacies.
You could go directly to your doc and explain the situation, or you could go to an alternate pharmacy and don't use insurance .
For the immediate time the alternate pharm idea would have best chance of success. But you may shoot yourself in the foot over the longer term for a few reasons. You could get red flagged for using different pharmacies (they can look it up) and you would have a hard time getting scripts after that.
It's not usually insurance that's the problem, it's the pharmacy. IE Insurance will put through your script far earlier than most pharmacies.
You could go directly to your doc and explain the situation, or you could go to an alternate pharmacy and don't use insurance .
For the immediate time the alternate pharm idea would have best chance of success. But you may shoot yourself in the foot over the longer term for a few reasons. You could get red flagged for using different pharmacies (they can look it up) and you would have a hard time getting scripts after that.
I use Meijer pharmacy and there pretty easy with early refills, and they are the only pharmacy I have ever used. I just called them and they said to call my insurance and see if I can get a early vacation refill, but that will be the second time in a row, how manny early refills are you allowd thru your insurance a year? They said to bring up the script and they will run it through to give me an exact date, but she pretty much said she's sure they won't do anything till the 27th. Unless I call my insurance and work something out!? And if I were to go to another pharm, how should I handle it? Thanks!!
T. Calderone
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We really can't answer your question because you could run into a glitch with your insurance, the doctor and/or the pharmacy policies. We can only speculate what is allowable. Sorry but I have to close this.
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