http://www.cvshealth.com/our-businesses/maintenance-choice%C2%AE
Studies show that a quarter of people receiving prescriptions never fill their first prescription, and patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and coronary artery disease adhere to their ongoing medication regimen about half of the time. In fact, non-adherence to essential medications is a frequent cause of preventable hospitalizations and patient illness, with costs to the U.S. health care system estimated at about $300 billion annually.
So the next time that a CVS Health Pharmacist tells you that they are “not comfortable” filling your prescriptions.. that they are going against the company’s policy of improving compliance and that they are personally contributing to the waste of the 300 billion dollars to our healthcare system.
The question has to be asked.. if this is a published policy of CVS HEALTH and one of their Pharmacist refused to fill your legit/on time/medically necessary medication… are they violating the company’s policies and procedures.. which in most companies… violating the company’s policies and procedure can cause an employee to be disciplined or fired…
OR
Is CVS HEALTH guilty of false advertising ? after all you health is everything…
Filed under: General Problems
I can say that CVS in Smyrna Tennessee not only refused to fill my narcotics, but refused to order them telling me that they may not get what they ordered and refused to call the other near CVS stores to see if they were in stock last year. I had used this store for many years. Tennessee has the monthly hit list so there was no problems with checking out the 30 day policy for fill dates. They refused to keep my prescription when I offered to wait until they were in stock. My narcotics are$10 generics vs the $90 statin name brand. Which do I need worse – the one I can walk to the bathroom with or the one that would prolong my limited life. And how do they know which ones my doctor gave me samples of because of my finances? My health my decision. Their excuse for not keeping my prescriptions to fill was that they might get lost.
Yes they are in violation of their own policies, and CVS Corporate will back up the pharmacists who refuse to fill VALID SCRIPTS, based on the type of medication, which the DEA just reclassified from Schedule 3 to 2, which is BLATANT DISCRIMINATION. CLASS ACTION FUCKEN LAWSUIT TIME.
CVS doesn’t care about medication compliance. CVS wants to make money, and harassing patients about compliance makes them refill, hence, they make money. But they’re pretty clever to disguise it as caring.
“Studies show that a quarter of people receiving prescriptions never fill their first prescription, and patients with chronic diseases such as diabetes and coronary artery disease adhere to their ongoing medication regimen about half of the time.”
I wonder why? Oh yeah, because they can’t afford it.
One also has to wonder if 25% of chronic pain patients never fill their first prescription… and these days, how many are able to “adhere to their ongoing medication regimen”?