Medicines while traveling
Is it better to get a large supply of medicines or get a prescription to national chain while traveling
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It depends on your specific medications: perishability, DEA classifications, and how you are paying, since third party payers have their own rules.
Sometimes going national works better, sometimes a big supply works better, but sometimes you just can't get around a requirement that the doctor see you before you get a renewal, and in some cases this prescription needs to be issued in the state where it is filled.
When my wife was alive we used Walmart for some scrips, CVS for others, KMart for still others, depending who had low cost programs for what. Then we used an insurance-paid mail order service for a prescription nobody was selling at low cost (and that one was about $120 a month on the co-pay, one pill a month, three delivered at a time).
My daughter had prescriptions that could be filled only one month at a time, a doctor's visit every three months, and could not be filled out of state.
So it varies.
Talk to your doctor about what he is prescribing, what are the rules on how much can be provided at one time and where the prescription can be filled.
Sometimes going national works better, sometimes a big supply works better, but sometimes you just can't get around a requirement that the doctor see you before you get a renewal, and in some cases this prescription needs to be issued in the state where it is filled.
When my wife was alive we used Walmart for some scrips, CVS for others, KMart for still others, depending who had low cost programs for what. Then we used an insurance-paid mail order service for a prescription nobody was selling at low cost (and that one was about $120 a month on the co-pay, one pill a month, three delivered at a time).
My daughter had prescriptions that could be filled only one month at a time, a doctor's visit every three months, and could not be filled out of state.
So it varies.
Talk to your doctor about what he is prescribing, what are the rules on how much can be provided at one time and where the prescription can be filled.
