<p>That sounds just like the type of lockbox I was considering. I think I'm going out today to pick one up.</p>
<p>We used to do the 30 day in person prescriptions, but last month the doc suggested we check with our insurance company to see if they would fill a 90 day mail order prescription, saying some companies will and some won't. I was very surprised when ours said yes. The copay amount is about 2/3 of what we paid for 3 separate prescrptions. We're still trying to figure out the timing of his med check visits. How do you guys do this when the kids are away?</p>
<p>We did the lock box last year and sent here with the 90 day supply. She's on all sorts of different meds, adderall being one but for a sleep disorder. She had no problems with it in the lock box (hers might be a combo one) and same thing, meds, credit card and now extra key for the car all go in it. she's also in a very rural area where the kids don't lock their doors or worry much about laptops being out.</p>
<p>For those of you with insurance benefits that cover a 90d supply, but you don't want to send 90 at a time away to school, just ask the pharmacy to send 90 in 3 containers. Explain to them that it is a scheduled drug, and your doctor has recommended that your student only have 30 on campus at a time. If it is a mailorder pharmacy like Express Scripts or Medco, etc, just call or fax or send a written note with the RX. Kids who need a portion of their meds at the clinic at high school ask all the time for their 30 or 90 day scripts to be split into 2-3 bottles so that each one has the appropriate label. </p>
<p>And in this day and age, there are NO doctors who receive payments for writing certain prescriptions, unless they are HMO doctors trying to change you to generics. Payments for prescriptions are not only unethical, they are for the most part now illegal. I sometime change patients from a cheaper generic to an expensive newer long acting med because there are potentially huge benefits, less side effects, and I do it because I know the patient will benefit. And many newer, expensive drugs do have 30d samples available, and websites with coupons to download for use with future purchases. For the kid who hates Adderal, and feels great-- or at least more normal-- on a newer expensive nongeneric med, his/her doc did them a favor. There is really no such thing as a kickback anymore. And 98% of practicing DOCS never were involved in that sort of thing anyway.</p>