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It's gotten a lot better (for me at least) in the last six months. For about a year and a half I had to call around checking inventory before calling my doctor.
by internet101010 2y ago
It's gotten a lot better (for me at least) in the last six months. For about a year and a half I had to call around checking inventory before calling my doctor. It made me feel like a junkie and I hated it.
In an ideal world there would be some sort of middleman connected to pharmacies, you have a preferred list of locations, the script automatically gets sent to the one with inventory, and you get notified which pharmacy to go to. Unfortunately no pharmacy would ever opt into this because it would mean risk of losing business. However, if the big pharmacies just offered this feature for their own locations I would definitely always send my script to them.
- Scoundreller 2y ago> For about a year and a half I had to call around checking inventory before calling my doctor. The other improvement here is that the DEA started allowing pharmacies to transfer patient prescriptions for controlled substances, so you don’t need to call your doctor and hope they send it out to the location with inventory quickly enough. But only once, to keep life arbitrarily difficult. Gotta make life easier through more rules, never fewer! https://www.dea.gov/stories/2023/2023-09/2023-09-01/revised-regulation-allows-dea-registered-pharmacies-transfer https://www.dea.gov/stories/2023/2023-09/2023-09-01/revised-... The DEA still has some restrictions on moving inventory between pharmacies, which can still prevent pharmacies from balancing supply and demand in a way that’s transparent to end-users.