New Year ' s Day: The Scriptpocalypse Begins

Football has March Madness and Christmas has Black Friday but retail pharmacy has New Year ' s Day. NYD is a magical time when practically all prescription insurance copays go up, people forget they have a massive deductible or their insurance completely changed and they conveniently have no who/what/when/where/why/how knowledge of their new insurance provider and an ID card has not shown up in their snail mail box. These are the worst of times because pharmacy employees generally become punching bags and the root of all evil when it is no fault of our own. < div > < br / > < /div > < div > An extra special addition for 2012 is the fallout from the ESI/Walgreens divorce. I am floating and have witnessed very sad partings of long time patients having to leave because ESI suits are a bunch of money hungry douche bags. Okay, all suits are money hungry douche bags, they can ' t help what they are... I have even witnessed patients change insurance or start using their spouse ' s insurance because they are on a first-name basis with their store ' s employees and are treated like family. Why would you walk away from that if you don ' t have to? < /div > < div > < br / > < /div > < div > This all began many many months ago when Walgreens acquired a small chain known as Duane Reade. Mergers require the review of all financials for both companies. In this review Walgreens found that the " best reimbursement rate in the industry " they were getting from ESI was deplorably lower...
Source: FAST FOOD Pharmacy - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: blogs