My motto....No prescription should take 5 visits to fill. After this visit, I boycotted these guys and exclusively use Rite Aid.
I pulled up to the building and there was a lot of water in the lot from flooding, so the drive through was the only thing available.
1. 10:00AM Pull up and ask for the script that was called in from a 8:30AM Doctors appointment and the pharm-tech says they did not recieve the prescription yet, come back in half an hour. I call my Dr. and confirm that the script was emailed over at 9:00AM to this CVS
2. 10:30AM Pull up and ask for the script and the same pharm-tech says they have not recieved it yet. When confronted with the fact that it was sent over an hour before she claims, sometimes these things take 2 or 3 hours to go through the system, come back at lunch time.
3. 12:00PM Pull up and again, ask for the prescription and I'm told they don't have my insurance information on file. I tell them, that's odd as I have filled prescriptions here with the same insurance. I give them the card and they tell me it will be 15 min to process everything, pull around and come back.
4. 12:15PM I pull up and ask for the script and am told it is $185 dollars. I say, "that's way too expensive and my insurance should cover most of it" The pharm-tech tells me, "your insurance doesn't apply to this because you haven't met your deductable yet." We debate for a minute over the way my insurance works, and then I tell them, "look, I have picked up this same prescription at Rite Aid down the street and it is not $185, I need to call my insurance company and figure this out."
I call my insurance provider and I have a co-insurance of $40 on the script, but $185 is the full price with no insurance whatsoever.....in fact, they have no record of any prescription I have had filled at the CVS ever. Turns out, CVS had just been charging me the full price and never using my insurance which is why they didn't have it on file even though I had filled multiple prescriptions there.
5. 1:30PM I pull up one final time and explain that even though insurance doensn't cover the entrie prescription, they need to run it through so that the amount I pay goes toward my yearly deductable. Pharm-tech is confused and gets a senior pharm-tech who is confused and gets the phamacist who is confused and tells me they can't understand what I'm saying and that I will have to come back when the flooding subsides to talk in more depth about this, but for now I can't tie up the drive through asking questions.
I contacted the CVS help online folks and got a call back a day later with the standard "this is unacceptable..." etc routine. At the end of the phone call the guy asked if there was anything he could do. My answer was, "I called over when I left the drive through to my Dr.,had them send the script to Rite Aid and by the time I grabbed a coffee and got to the other side of Methuen, it was ready and it was $40." "The only thing you can do is figure out why they can get it right in 15 minutes and you take 3 hours and 5 trips and still don't understand what's wrong." read more