spendy
May 03, 2017

This is just kind of a mid-week blow, because I feel like I need one, but--wonder of wonders--I also actually have TIME for one.

Spouse's bills for this last medical issue have topped $1200.00, and I am not certain that they are all in yet. That doesn't include the drugs, but fortunately the most expensive one was covered at 100% by my drug plan. But because we have a CDHP with a $1500.00 deductible, the whole $1200+ will have to come out of my pocket. I have enough in my HSA to cover it, but I better make damn sure I don't get sick, since we can only afford that for one of us.

Nothing like paying ridiculous premiums, and jumping through all the corporate "wellness program" hoops just to get a tiny premium reduction...only to have pretty much anything between a wellness visit and a major catastophe go to the deductible and have to be paid out of pocket.

Speaking of Spouse's medical travails--at his physical last week, the doc told him that along with renewing his HBP presription, he was prescribing Lunesta, and that the nurse would send the scripts over to Costco. This was before 1:30 pm. At 6:30 pm, we inquired at the Costco to see if the drugs were ready...and they never got sent. So once again, on a Friday, the doctor's staff failed to submit the prescriptions to the pharmacy.

Fast-forward to Monday. Spouse calls the doctor's office and bitches, they send the prescriptions over to the pharmacy, and I pick them up on my way home from work.

Well, I pick up the drugs that were there...turns out, the same woman that was responsible for not sending over the Rxs on Friday, also neglected to tell Spouse that he needed to have bloodwork done before they could renew his hypertension meds. (He hadn't eaten that day, specifically for that reason--in case they needed fasting bloodwork. But they never mentioned it, and he, of course, would never ask about something like that.) So they sent over a small script for that, and he has to figure out a time when the lab is open that he can get in and get the blood drawn.

And the Lunesta? Well, she sent a prescription for sleep meds...but not the actual sleep med the doctor had said he was going to prescribe.

I called their office right away, and let them know there was confusion concerning what the doctor specifically told Spouse he was prescribing, and what the pharmacy received. Naturally, since it was 4:15, they were not going to get back to me on it same day. So I told them to call Spouse on Tuesday to clarify if this was the right drug or not. And they did do that, at least.

Nope, the doctor wanted him on Lunesta, specifically, because of the problems maintaining sleep.

Yep, she submitted the prescription for the wrong drug.

So guess who had to stop at Costco on the way home, again, and shell out money for another bottle of sleeping pills?

This shit happens one more time, I'm driving straight from Costco to the medical center and reaming somebody face-to-face. This is MY husband, MY time, MY money, and MY LIFE they are fucking with. I'm damned sick of it.