Three days ago one of my daughter's who is 13 (no pictures) decideds to take the "salt and ice challenge" you wet the back of your hand, coat the back of your hand with table salt and place an ice cube in the salt to see who can leave it on the longest.

The black rectangle on her was diagnosed as second degree frost bite (not sure if she won, but she gave it one hell of an effort apparently), and she was given a prescription for both an oral and a topical antibiotic.

Last evening my wife went to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine. The topical was available but they were out of the oral and offered to obtain the medicine from another source today. My wife picked up the topical antibiotic and paid the co-pay (bolded font which will make sense later) of eight dollars and some change.

She calls the pharmacy today before leaving work to inquire if the oral medication is ready for pick up. It is.


She drives to the pharmacy and is told "since we have no insurance on file for your daughter, you will have to pay retail price for this prescription". Weren't we just there last night? What the fuck happened to the insurance you had on file for her last night?

Was the pharmacy just trying to jack us around, or do you think this is legitimate? Seems rather shady to me. And will Obamacare correct shit like this?


/coolstorybro

According to my Facebook newsfeed, your daughter shouldn't get the antibiotics because it's her fault.
I'd say fuck the oral antibiotics anyways. Just wait and see if she does develop sepsis from frostbite on her hand that's already being treated with a local antibiotic.

With whom did she do this challenge?

The bigger story is why your 13 yr old is doing shit like that to her body.

THE4RINGZ;1214264 wrote:Three days ago one of my daughter's who is 13 (no pictures) decideds to take the "salt and ice challenge" you wet the back of your hand, coat the back of your hand with table salt and place an ice cube in the salt to see who can leave it on the longest.

Your daughter is a moron.

Hope this helps.

dlazz;1214332 wrote:Your daughter is a moron.

Hope this helps.

Odds are it didn't.

Hope this helps.

Your daughters got some balls. I like a woman with balls.

never heard of this challenge. will go try, then sue you....

DeadliestWarrior34;1214462 wrote:Your daughters got some balls. I like a woman with balls.

Repz

I have some questionable things happen at pharmacies, usually involving more expensive, non-generic drugs.

THE4RINGZ;1214264 wrote:Three days ago one of my daughter's who is 13 (no pictures) decideds to take the "salt and ice challenge" you wet the back of your hand, coat the back of your hand with table salt and place an ice cube in the salt to see who can leave it on the longest.

The black rectangle on her was diagnosed as second degree frost bite (not sure if she won, but she gave it one hell of an effort apparently), and she was given a prescription for both an oral and a topical antibiotic.

Last evening my wife went to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine. The topical was available but they were out of the oral and offered to obtain the medicine from another source today. My wife picked up the topical antibiotic and paid the co-pay (bolded font which will make sense later) of eight dollars and some change.

She calls the pharmacy today before leaving work to inquire if the oral medication is ready for pick up. It is.


She drives to the pharmacy and is told "since we have no insurance on file for your daughter, you will have to pay retail price for this prescription". Weren't we just there last night? What the **** happened to the insurance you had on file for her last night?

Was the pharmacy just trying to jack us around, or do you think this is legitimate? Seems rather shady to me. And will Obamacare correct **** like this?


/coolstorybro

As someone who worked in the Pharmacy for 4 years during undergrad, my guess is they did the $8.00 generic straight co-pay. Several of the main chains offer generic that are really cheap, for 8 bucks, and they don't use the insurance for it.

That's my guess. We did that a lot at my pharmacy.

^ This. It was likely a cheap drug the first night, so whoever was entering the script just billed it to cash. It's easy to catch and ask the patient for insurance information at the register if the copay is unusually high, but if it's not it can go unnoticed. The second day it was high so they asked you for it. If you have insurance it's easy to go back and rebill it after you bring in the needed account numbers. Nothing shady here.

GOONx19;1214850 wrote:^ This. It was likely a cheap drug the first night, so whoever was entering the script just billed it to cash. It's easy to catch and ask the patient for insurance information at the register if the copay is unusually high, but if it's not it can go unnoticed. The second day it was high so they asked you for it. If you have insurance it's easy to go back and rebill it after you bring in the needed account numbers. Nothing shady here.

Bingo.

Trust me, we don't try to jack your shit. We don't benefit from it and it's illegal. I get paid the same whether your prescription is $4 or $24.

The pharmacy doesn't lose money because an item is billed to insurance, we get paid the same.

What were the scripts for? That would help shed some light on the situation.

Also, I doubt the pharmacy said "Since we have no insurance on file, you'll HAVE to pay the cash price"

We have this happen all the time. At the window, we just ask if the patient has insurance, and if so, can we see the card/information so we can re-bill it out for them.

Trueblue23;1214479 wrote:Repz

You lie

THE4RINGZ;1214264 wrote: you will have to pay retail price for this prescription".

/coolstorybro

How much was that? I'm sure it's nothing close to what my prescriptions cost.