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Amazon recently announced their new prescription delivery service. Do you think you will use it?
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I like my mail order pharmacy, is Amazon going to file my insurance paperwork?
Normally I would say #*%$ no! But with the local problems with the local CVS pharmacy, whose prices vary hourly, whose coverage comes and goes with the tide, whose hiring & pay policies are fetid, I am seriously considering Amazon. Much as I hate monopolies. Grrrrrrr!
They are much more expensive than my current mail order so I have no reason to use it. I guess those higher prices help Jeff Bezos buy another million dollar home.
BCBS contracts with Express Scripts for home delivery. Unless Amazon can do it for less and is covered by BCBS I won’t be using it.
as all things, it depends on our insurance
My insurance (AARP United Healthcare advantage plan) has recently aligned itself with Walgreen’s, so that is where I will stay.
Will it accept Medicare?
I would use this service, however like many others, my insurance uses another company for long term medications. Unless that changes I cannot use this.
Amazon pharmacy Not available in Canada so i will not be using the service
I’m not sure I want any more of Amazon in my life.
One mail order is enough and through Medicare RX Cigna, I use Express Scripts. However it was on the news this morning and Express Scripts mail order pharmacy is having problems getting the meds delivered safely.
Not on your life! Amazon already know enough about my shopping habits, without them needing to know anything about any medical condition(s) that I have.
My local Walmart Pharmacist is my most valuable part of my care team. I would not want to leave them.
I had a very bad experience with Amazon customer service. I concluded they are not an ethical company and took down my negative posts. Google Amazon doing this and you will see all the people who have had negative posts deleted. Won’t use them unless I have to, and many times they are a monopoly and are the only game in town.
What does Amazon know about dealing with Health Insurance companies, the levels of drug tiers, and Medicare billing?
I used my Medicare and Insurance plans. The process to follow under Medicare plan B restrictions for diabetes are pretty complicated. Once set up and working (a miracle) you don’t want to change it.
I already started using it and I am extremely satisfied. I have used other delivery services in the past, and by far this is the best customer service experience I have had.
I’m only a mile away from a grocery store, CVS, and Walgreens so I don’t think I’ll need Amazon for prescriptions. Wondering if others have noticed that glucagon has been pulled off many Medicare Part D plans for 2021? Because of my severe hypoglycemia unawareness and my Dexcom that isn’t always accurate I try to keep glucagon on hand. So for 2021 I won’t be able to do that, purchase price when I checked was $250-350.
I have not heard about this new service. I need to know more before I elect to use it. Thanks for the heads up. 🙂
I used a different prescription delivery service, Express Scripts, for a few years and learned that I prefer having my pharmacy down the road. It comes in handy when I need a medication now unexpectedly for various reasons and speaking to the pharmacist is much more easy by walking into the store.
Can’t use it. I have to use a particular mail-in pharmacy. If I don’t, I pay full cost of the medicine/CGM/pump supplies. But, I wouldn’t use it even if I could.
I can’t I have to use KP farm and Byram for pump supplies.
I’m happy with both CVS and Edgepark’s prescription delivery service, so I have no interest in changing.