I am more than tired of pharmacy woes.

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Many of us here on mylot have written about pharmacy issues, meds not being ready, not available, inefficiency of the pharmacies, and on and on it goes. I thought I had seen it all but yesterday was a new one for me. I went to pick up a prescription for the son, of course. It's not the first time it was prescribed for him. It's always been covered by insurance, no problems. When I arrived, I was informed it would be over $900. Um, NO. I told them to run it again and the tech insisted it was correct. The pharmacist was wildly busy, and I was told I would have to wait to speak to her. I told the tech I was willing to wait as long as it took and that I wasn't happy. Amazingly, it was about 2 minutes, and I was able to speak to the pharmacist, who insisted that it really was that much. I hiked myself off to Walmart, had the pharmacist there call the other pharmacy and switch it over to Walmart. Amazingly, the scrip was now NO CHARGE. This made me so, so mad...I was boiling inside. No, I didn't blow up at anyone, but I wanted to. I went back to the original pharmacy and showed them the scrip and the total--.$00--and of course the pharmacist got involved and then claimed it was a ''computer error'' and she would fix it. Seriously?? How many people got charged for it when it was previously covered? I asked her that...and I also asked her if those people would be refunded. She mumbled....I called their hotline when I got home and reported this mess. This is not acceptable. Why am I writing this? To try to pass the word, if this little trick gets pulled on you, do some homework before you pay an exorbitant price for no reason. I do not know many people willing to spend $900 if they don't have to. I don't have that kind of money, not many do! This is so wrong.