I have used CVS Pharmacy in Rockville for years. Nothing exceptional, just convenient for me to get to. I had a recent experience though, that has left me in disbelief of how my health is definitely not important to the pharmacy staff there. I had gone thru the drive through to drop off my prescription. I was told it would be ready in about an hour. During this hour I stopped home & received a phone call saying my insurance was not active. It was, as my husband is active duty right now and has been for 3 years, but I asked how much without it as it was the weekend and we could not contact the insurance company. They said $11.99 and so I gladly said I'd pay the $11.99 for the antibiotic that I needed. After picking up my three year old from nursery school, over an hour later, we stopped at CVS. I went in the store as I needed a few things. Once at the pharmacy, the same blank staring girl who I had given the prescriction to at the drive thru window & spoke with on the phone, told me it was not ready. She then told me that my insurance wasn't active. I told her it was but that I would pay the $11.99. Not a big deal. She told me it would be another hour. My three year was not about to last in the store, so I went home. It got busy at home and it got late so I didn't go back that night.
The next day I got a text saying my prescription was ready. My family and I were busy running around, and on the way home we went thru the drive thru, to pick it up. Same girl at the window. Told me my insurance wasn't active. !?!?!? I started to lose my cool, telling her I already spoke to her twice and said to fill it anyway and I would gladly pay $11.99. She told me it would be another hour then realized they would be closed by then, so pretty much that I was out of luck. I told her I got the text saying it had been filled and was ready. She looked at me like I was from Mars, so I showed her the text. At this point a very rude, pompous pharmacist crassly tells us to come inside because we are holding up the line. At this point, my husband went in, with my phone and I stayed in the car with my son...I was really annoyed.
My husband returned, without a prescription. The man had given him the run around, acted like we had no insurance, to which my active duty husband sure as heck knew he did. I guess the smug pharmacist gave him a spiel about how he was ex-military and knew how tricare works, incinuating that my husband was lying I guess. Then he said to my husband in a demeaning manner, "It's only $11.99.". To which my husband responded that yes! He was fine to pay it. The pharmacist said it was not ready. My husband said we got a text saying it had been filled. He said to my husband that that was not possible. So my husband showed him the text. The pharmacist then said that there must be a glitch in the computer system. The pharmacist then told him that they were closing in twenty minutes so there was nothing he could do. I don't know how long it takes to count out like 10 antibiotic pills, but apparantly it takes a very long time at Rockville CVS. We called the 24-Hour Vernon CVS and they were able to get the prescription and fill it within a half hour. I am still shocked at the cold and uncompassionate customer service as well as unsure of the mind set and capabability of the pharmacy staff..at least of two of them!! I do not trust them for filling my prescriptions or anyone else for that matter!! I also don't feel like revisiting the twilight zone! Lol! read more