My insurance company wants us to use their mail order pharmacy for all maintenance prescriptions. If we don't, we have to pay more for our prescriptions. I dutifully transferred my prescriptions to them over a year ago. I really don't want Daughter's prescriptions coming through a mail order pharmacy, as she has 4 different doctors prescribing medication for her, and I'd prefer to have a local pharmacist keeping tabs. The deciding factor, though, is that the mail order company does not take medicaid. Medicaid pays most of the copay, leaving us with a $2 copay on a few of her prescriptions. For us, it would be much more expensive to go mail order for her prescriptions.
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I contacted the mail order pharmacy by email several months ago to ask if they'd take her medicaid. They wrote back that they didn't, but I could save money by transferring her prescriptions to them. No, I couldn't.
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Every time we fill her prescriptions at the pharmacy, I get a letter from the mail order pharmacy telling me how much I could have saved by using them. They send a letter, complete with .44 postage, for each prescription. Last month I got 16 of them. That's 7.04 not counting the cost of all the paper and generating the letters. I sent another email, telling them I would not be switching as she had medicaid, so they would be more expensive, and asking them to stop wasting money sending me the notifications.
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Friday I received a message on my answering machine from someone at the Board of Pensions telling me I could save over $1,700 every three months if I'd switch her prescriptions. Today, I received 7 more letters from the mail order pharmacy telling me I could save money by switching her prescriptions to them.
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I give up.
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