Is there some issue preventing you from driving to the pharmacy, pulling out your checkbook, and paying retail for this medication and dealing with the reimbursement issue on the back end?
Shocking concept, actually paying for a product I know, but it is an option.
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You can’t pay for a prescription med until the scrip has been written (or transmitted) and filled.
The issue is that Øbummer”care” doesn’t fix the flaw in the market.
That would work, provided the doc was prevailed upon for a paper prescription. The busy pharmacy would still be equally busy. Your paper prescription would join the queue behind the ones that have to go through the Obamacare rigmarole.
It doesn’t sound like the issue is reimbursement, it sounds like the pharmacy is 3 hours behind in filling prescriptions. In that case, you can 1) go to a different pharmacy with your prescription (unless of course it is e-scribed, then the original pharmacy will have to process the prescription but not fill it in order for it to be transferred, or 2) the patient can pay cash and bill the insurance company later to receive the reimbursement (if any). It sounds like, in this instance, the pharmacy was dealing with fill demand, not reimbursement issues.