Do You Have Your Prescriptions On Automatic Refill?

We can nominate a local pharmacy and, if you need a repeat prescription, you just tell them what you need. They check it so, they know if there are any changes. It's more efficient then when we used to have to phone the surgery and get a paper prescription to take to a pharmacy.

My pharmacy even has a WhatsApp so, we can text them when we need any prescribed medication and they let us know when it's ready to collect, usually it's ready within an hour or so. Can you do that in New Jersey?

My mum's pharmacy works in the same way and her medication changes from time to time. The pharmacy checks that and delivers it to her at home.
 
I use the auto refill feature.

It’s easy to go into my pharmacy account and turn off an individual prescription if my PCP makes a change.

Also the system that I use gives me an advance notification of the next order and price with an option to cancel or change the refill date.

This is helpful to me because over time the prescriptions tend to accumulate.

I can also order a few days early or change the pickup instructions from in store to free mailing along with the mailing address which is nice for people that have transportation issues, travel or have seasonal homes.

It doesn’t take much time and is easy to use the Wegman’s prescription account.
 
I use an auto refill for a prescription I get online, but somehow over the years I've accumulated 9 months worth of the prescription (one 90 bottle I just needed to start, and two unopened extra 90 day bottles in the cupboard).

My other prescriptions I pick up at the grocery store pharmacy (Wegman's) and their system sends me a text letting me know it is time to refill and asking if I want to (though they have a super confusing expected response, instead of a Y for yes, they want a "30" for yes, which since they are usually 90 day refills I worry that responding 30 will result in a 1 month supply, but it has been working okay for 90 days).
 
i forgot to add that if i did automatic refills i could get shorted on medication. i don't know why but sometimes they don't have the entire amount i need. for example my roflumilast is 56 pills a month. sometimes they only have 52 on hand. they offer to fill those but, i can't return the next day and pick up the other 4 pills they owe me. it would hafta run through the insurance again.

then i'd be paying out of pocket full price for 4 pills. i've never heard of not being able to pick up the remaining medication they owe you for your complete perscription. so then i hafta wait.
 
No. I want to phone in each refill on the date of my choosing. I never forget because it's on my calendar which I check without fail daily. I use Walmart and a week before I run out, they call me saying it's time to refill. No, it isn't. They would probably also refill too early and over time, I have more medication than I should, and my insurance in the past has frowned on this, even once declining to refill due to "too early." Also, my doctor has changed my blood pressure medicine several times.
 
Yes, and it's getting out of hand. The VA believes in giving out medication. Several shelves and closets and even refrigerator are full of meds, supplies and equipment. Plus as a cancer patient, every device I was hooked to in the hospital, I have here. I can turn my bedroom into a hospital room in about 15 minutes.
 
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Yes, I rely on Autofill but then I've taken the same 3 prescriptions for years. GoodRX also sends me reminders to refill specific prescriptions in case my refills have run out and the pharmacist hasn't checked with the doctor.
 
Trish said:
We can nominate a local pharmacy and, if you need a repeat prescription, you just tell them what you need. They check it so, they know if there are any changes. It's more efficient then when we used to have to phone the surgery and get a paper prescription to take to a pharmacy.

My pharmacy even has a WhatsApp so, we can text them when we need any prescribed medication and they let us know when it's ready to collect, usually it's ready within an hour or so. Can you do that in New Jersey?

My mum's pharmacy works in the same way and her medication changes from time to time. The pharmacy checks that and delivers it to her at home.
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Trish, I don't know if that has anything to do with location. It may have to do more with what features each pharmacy company has instituted. Local pharmacies may be less likely to have convenient features than large pharmacy chains. As far as I know, neither my local or mail pharmacy uses WhatsApp.

MarciKS said:
@OneEyedDiva I do not. I don't even know if our in house pharmacy does that. Plus if the refills run out the doc has to be contacted to agree to more refills. Plus on occasion they have computer issues and then if something happened and it didn't go through then I'd be short on medication and some of them I can't go without.
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All my prescriptions are for 90 days and my doctors usually order the refills to be available for 9 months to a year before having to renew. Optum RX sends out reminders that it's time to refill, allowing enough time to do so before running out.
 
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