Change in Medical??

August 23, 2011

A month ago I had to pick up some meds for my FS and, as usual, I just show the pharmacist the Medical Card and off we go...no charge. Just this past Sunday I picked up the exact same meds (refill) and the pharmacist charged me. Did something change with Medical? Are caregivers now responsible for paying for a "co-pay" or for meds?

DannieAS

August 23, 2011

it could have been a slip-up too. That happened to me once....but not again.

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krose2

August 24, 2011

You need to tell them you haven't had to pay for it before. Some of the medications need a TAR (treatment authorization request) to be sent in and the pharmacy techs sometimes miss that.

Kelly

BoysParent

August 25, 2011

Well, Wallgreens owes me $9 then. Thanks for the info about the TAR. I'll check into it.

Nicole04

September 2, 2011

We picked up some RXs for our new foster-adopt kids this week and the tech said, "IEHP is medical (no drug benefit) only....but I will check it anyways". He checked it and low and behold, the meds were covered. So maybe they assumed the same but didn't bother checking unlike our tech. There are various benefit levels for Medi-Cal/IEHP, some 100% coverage, some have co-pays, etc. As far as I am aware it is 100% coverage for foster children.

BoysParent

September 9, 2011

OK. Thanks for the info. I think we got a bad pharmacy tech.