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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 339324" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>That's great news, flutterby96! I'm very glad you made the right connection.</p><p> </p><p>Although not related to mental health medications, I thought I'd mention my recent pharmacy/insurance experience just in case it might help someone. I've been taking an antihistamine (Allegra-D) for about 13 years now and my insurance has always covered it at a cost of $20 per month to me. I went to fill it the first week of the year and the pharmacist told me insurance rejected it and that he thought it might be because a generic came out the first of the year. I told him to fill the name brand if covered and if not, to go ahead with the generic. Later I came back and found he'd filled the generic, but the cost to me was $70! After multiple phone calls to the insurance company and to my usual plus several different pharmacies, one pharmacy tech made the discovery that if the script had the "do not substitute" checked by the doctor, it would still cover name brand at $20, but if it was left blank or had the generic checked, it wasn't. It didn't make sense to any of us but I called the doctor's office and they called it back in that way and I'm still out $20 per month instead of $70.</p><p> </p><p>Lesson learned: when a prescription is denied, make sure to double check all the options.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 339324, member: 701"] That's great news, flutterby96! I'm very glad you made the right connection. Although not related to mental health medications, I thought I'd mention my recent pharmacy/insurance experience just in case it might help someone. I've been taking an antihistamine (Allegra-D) for about 13 years now and my insurance has always covered it at a cost of $20 per month to me. I went to fill it the first week of the year and the pharmacist told me insurance rejected it and that he thought it might be because a generic came out the first of the year. I told him to fill the name brand if covered and if not, to go ahead with the generic. Later I came back and found he'd filled the generic, but the cost to me was $70! After multiple phone calls to the insurance company and to my usual plus several different pharmacies, one pharmacy tech made the discovery that if the script had the "do not substitute" checked by the doctor, it would still cover name brand at $20, but if it was left blank or had the generic checked, it wasn't. It didn't make sense to any of us but I called the doctor's office and they called it back in that way and I'm still out $20 per month instead of $70. Lesson learned: when a prescription is denied, make sure to double check all the options. [/QUOTE]
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