The Pharmacy Chick

There are a lot of things that the Pharmacy Chick needs, some I get, some I don’t.

Lately I have been thinking about the stuff I don’t need…its just as interesting.

What I don’t need:

1. Buttheads who whine about their copays: Its your insurance, not mine.  Either pay it or walk out empty handed. I don’t care…really.

2.  Corporate Brass (rhymes with ass) who wear a suit and not a white coat who think they know how to run my department better than I do.

3.  More reports to print, initial, date, and file away…reports nobody will look at again.

4. Another policy or procedure to make CMS happy.  Screw them..

5.  More shifts short staffed.  (pay better and you’ll hire first…not last…)

6.  People who think I should do their work for them. Its YOUR insurance, YOU do the footwork.

7. Any more recall notices. Make it right the first time!  If I make a mistake can I “recall it”?  Nooooo…

8. More phone lines.  Why do I have 6 anyway?

9. Lazy Dr’s.  Just write the damn prescriptions, quit telling your patients to “just have the pharmacy call”   unless you put in a dedicated line right to your ear.

10. Drug Seekers…nuff said.

11. Trash.  I don’t care what color it is, if you CAN work, and you DONT work, and you are living off the dime of those who do, you are trash.

12. Being open on holidays.  Geez, give us a break. 

13. One more person who tells me how he pays my salary with the money he spends at my pharmacy. Unless you pay cash, you aren’t helping much with that AWP-40% + 10cents your PBM pays. You’d be embarrassed if you knew how little we make off your drugs.

13a  People who use the term “rich pharmacists”.  Yea, I make a living, but I’m no Sultan of Brunei and if I was rich, I’d surely not be wearing the white coat anymore.

14.  Any more prior authorizations. 

15. Loyalty cards. Coupons…  If you want the rebate, mail the thing in. quit wasting my time trying to get Solodyn free.

15a. Split billing ANYTHING-If you’ve got 2 insurances, count yourselves lucky. There are millions who don’t have even ONE, so quit copping an attitude when I can’t double bill.

16. Insurance cards without enough information to process a claim.

17. Prescriptions on generic blanks.  Look, businesses won’t take checks unless the customer information is pre printed on the check, why do we continue to take blanks without Dr info pre printed on them? 

18. Price Matches

19. Gift card promo’s

20. predatory pricing by  mass retailers who prostitue their ”pharmacies”.

Any contributions? What don’t YOU need anymore!

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