http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/insurance-companies-did-you-just-cringe/ Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:41:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/insurance-companies-did-you-just-cringe/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Chris Sat, 05 Sep 2009 18:50:59 +0000 http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/?p=36#comment-9 That is outrageous. It sounds that by the time all of this happened, maybe receiving the antipsychotic meds may have not been a bad idea. I as well am on a BCBSFL PPO plan. With my old BCBS insurance I just picked my insulin up at the pharmacy so didn't have to deal with the mail order process, so that was usually not a bad experience except for the college mishap in the post. The testing strips was what was crazy. They would send my stuff to me without even calling to ask if I needed stuff, they would send me generic lancets instead of the ones I wanted. Luckily, now the company I get them from doesn't do any of that, so I don't have to worry. The first time I tried to get my insulin from this new mail order pharmacy, Prime Therapeutics was insane. I had the prescription in my hand and wanted to fax it because my doctor was going on vacation for a week. Nope, they wouldn't take the prescription from me, had to be from my doctor. So it ended up taking a few weeks before I received my insulin, I had to pick some up at a local clinic. Hope everything is going well now. That is outrageous. It sounds that by the time all of this happened, maybe receiving the antipsychotic meds may have not been a bad idea. I as well am on a BCBSFL PPO plan. With my old BCBS insurance I just picked my insulin up at the pharmacy so didn’t have to deal with the mail order process, so that was usually not a bad experience except for the college mishap in the post. The testing strips was what was crazy. They would send my stuff to me without even calling to ask if I needed stuff, they would send me generic lancets instead of the ones I wanted. Luckily, now the company I get them from doesn’t do any of that, so I don’t have to worry. The first time I tried to get my insulin from this new mail order pharmacy, Prime Therapeutics was insane. I had the prescription in my hand and wanted to fax it because my doctor was going on vacation for a week. Nope, they wouldn’t take the prescription from me, had to be from my doctor. So it ended up taking a few weeks before I received my insulin, I had to pick some up at a local clinic. Hope everything is going well now.

]]> http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/insurance-companies-did-you-just-cringe/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Minnesota Nice Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:35:41 +0000 http://thelifeofadiabetic.com/?p=36#comment-6 Mercy. For the 20 years prior to '09, I was on a lovely HMO - no hassles whatsoever. I paid my co-pay, picked up my prescriptions at the neighborhood pharmacy, and went home a happy camper. Well, my employer dropped them and we had to go with Blue Cross and that dreadful mailorder pharmacy, Express Scripts. It took me ten weeks to get my first shipment of insulin; UPS left my thyroid meds on the sidewalk; I was mailed someone else's antipsychotic medication, and my cholesterol pills were the wrong strength. None of the phone reps knew anything. So, I learned a little bit about persistence and patience, and being on hold for 30 minutes at a time. My employer is nationwide and has health care liasons at its headquarters. She and I did cxonference calls back and forth until I got what I needed. Major suckage. Leaves me exhausted just thinking about it. Good luck in getting this all figured out. Mercy. For the 20 years prior to ’09, I was on a lovely HMO – no hassles whatsoever. I paid my co-pay, picked up my prescriptions at the neighborhood pharmacy, and went home a happy camper. Well, my employer dropped them and we had to go with Blue Cross and that dreadful mailorder pharmacy, Express Scripts. It took me ten weeks to get my first shipment of insulin; UPS left my thyroid meds on the sidewalk; I was mailed someone else’s antipsychotic medication, and my cholesterol pills were the wrong strength. None of the phone reps knew anything. So, I learned a little bit about persistence and patience, and being on hold for 30 minutes at a time. My employer is nationwide and has health care liasons at its headquarters. She and I did cxonference calls back and forth until I got what I needed. Major suckage. Leaves me exhausted just thinking about it.
Good luck in getting this all figured out.

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