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Got my surgery prescriptions (Scopolamine patch, Lortab elixer, Pepcid, Celebrex, Zofran and 1 more I can't remember). I don't have insurance for meds. So I called my local Walgreens and found out just my 16 oz of Lortab elixer is $230! Wow.

I"m a disabled vet who gets most of my care thru the VA (my surgery is being done by a civilian dr, thru Medicare) and all of my rx's come from the local VA pharmacy for free. I called the pharmacy and they said if my VA primary care provider rewrites those rx's, I can get them thru the VA pharmacy. So I took them into his office today and gave it to the front office lady, with a note of direction for my dr (who doesn't yet know about my surgery) that I needed to pick up the rx's by Fri afternoon, as I'm sposed to be 3 hrs away at the hospital next Monday at 10 am.

If anyone here has ever dealt with the VA healthcare system they know how stupid it was for me to drop off my script to the office lady. The dr may never see it. Or he may not approve to give me these meds. And will they call me? Probly not. It'll just get lost in paperwork. What do I do then?

Anyone have success in getting civilian scripts filled by the VA pharmacy?

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Got my surgery prescriptions (Scopolamine patch, Lortab elixer, Pepcid, Celebrex, Zofran and 1 more I can't remember). I don't have insurance for meds. So I called my local Walgreens and found out just my 16 oz of Lortab elixer is $230! Wow.

I"m a disabled vet who gets most of my care thru the VA (my surgery is being done by a civilian dr, thru Medicare) and all of my rx's come from the local VA pharmacy for free. I called the pharmacy and they said if my VA primary care provider rewrites those rx's, I can get them thru the VA pharmacy. So I took them into his office today and gave it to the front office lady, with a note of direction for my dr (who doesn't yet know about my surgery) that I needed to pick up the rx's by Fri afternoon, as I'm sposed to be 3 hrs away at the hospital next Monday at 10 am.

If anyone here has ever dealt with the VA healthcare system they know how stupid it was for me to drop off my script to the office lady. The dr may never see it. Or he may not approve to give me these meds. And will they call me? Probly not. It'll just get lost in paperwork. What do I do then?

Anyone have success in getting civilian scripts filled by the VA pharmacy?

Yes absolutely. I just did the same thing but I am only 20 minutes away from My VA. call your primary care doctor and just tell them what you need . Call or send him a message thru MyHealtheVA

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Yes absolutely. I just did the same thing but I am only 20 minutes away from My VA. call your primary care doctor and just tell them what you need . Call or send him a message thru MyHealtheVA

Thanks! I've never even emailed from my healthe-vet yet. I just did it tho. I will continually check it until his nurse tells me it's in his hands and it's being filled. Now I'm worried about my meds. For all 6 of them (Why so many, btw?) it's over $360!!! Just for a little ole surgery! Glad I get all my pills from the VA. I'd be broke every month if I had to pay for them! And my VA clinic is about 15 minutes away too. My surgery is 3 hrs away, however.

Thanks for the idea!

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