Filling medicine prescriptions while traveling

I have used an urgent care for blood draw but it seems to be about the same as a hospital lab. I now am set up to do my own finger stick and call in the INR number once a week. This is GREAT for any of you in this position. It's less painful, easy and insurance pays. I can even adjust my own dosage of warfarin.

Check into seeing if your State and your Doctor do "ePrescribing" for the narcotics (New York State runs this way iirc)

Walgreens for 3 years as a full timer now. They are everywhere. Some are even 24 hour.

Traveling with a paper prescription I found California would not accept mine from Florida. Then getting back to Nevada they said it was beyond the fill date allowed. I'm talking maybe a week.

Other prescriptions are not a problem. We use CVS and have an app that works well.

IME Walgreens is able to look up what you have set up at any Walgreens. BUT if you need a paper prescription, the best thing to do is get your dr to mail it to you well ahead of time as much as possible. At least they could see that you have been getting the same thing filled at other Walgreens from the same dr, and see all your insurance info.

If you can go at a less busy time---like the middle of the month on a weekday---you can get more info at the pharmacy.

I wonder if you might have better luck getting a blood draw at an urgent care clinic and having them send the results to your dr.

It's a challenge. I have 2 meds which are controlled substances which require a paper prescription for every refill. On top of that, I have to get blood drawn once a month and get the result faxed to my Dr. Half of the time, the lab says they faxed it and my Dr says he didn't get it requiring me to intervene and get it done. Enough of my problems. I used to use a local super market pharmacy which doesn't exist in the south so now I've switched to Walgreens because, at least, they seem to be everywhere. But I still think the account has to be switched to the pharmacy you are using even though you would think they would be linked by computer. Haven't had a chance yet to test Walgreens away. Really it's not a huge problem. It's just not fast because they always have to call the previous pharmacy.

Walmart works. Bigger parking lots than Walgreen, and I believe cheaper.

We have used Walgreens in 40 states over the past 11 years, we also get our prescriptions once a year for 90 days with 3 refills, however if you require heavy duty painkillers, this doesn't work. Those must be filled within the state they are written, also multiple refills and long term prescriptions without a doctor's visit are not available any more either.

Our insurance requires us to use mail order for maintenance meds. Get 90 day Rx with 4 refills - takes care of the year. Have them sent either to our mail forwarding address (get an email telling me they are in) or have them sent to a temporary address when we are staying longer in one location. Use Walgreens for short-term meds

pawatt wrote:
We use Walgreens, they are nearly everywhere. Any one can access your prescriptions.

X2, I have used Walgreens in every state in the west.