Va Doctor Did Not Refill Outside Doctors Prescriptions

[chief 313]

after 3 days of calling cilinic ,patients rep.and others with no answer,decided to fax a letter to va under secretaty of veterans benefits daniel cooper .requesting his help to get these meds filled. any thoughts? best regards chief 313

[Objee]

Chief313:

I've tried several times over the years to have outside prescriptions filled, but no luck. VA told me last time that they didn't do it, but I'm not sure I believe them.

usn308

I had success one time in getting my VA primary physician to rewrite non-VA prescriptions onto VA forms.

Wasn't easy, but he did it. The drugs were in the VA formulary so nothing special was involved.

Ralph

[old romad]

after 3 days of calling cilinic ,patients rep.and others with no answer,decided to fax a letter to va under secretaty of veterans benefits daniel cooper .requesting his help to get these meds filled. any thoughts? best regards chief 313

I have had 5 meds from private docs refilled by showing to va primary doc at clinic,including Plavix and Crestor.

[Philip Rogers]

after 3 days of calling cilinic ,patients rep.and others with no answer,decided to fax a letter to va under secretaty of veterans benefits daniel cooper .requesting his help to get these meds filled. any thoughts? best regards chief 313

Contact the Patient Rep or the VAMC director. They usually will fill outside prescriptions provided they're medications found in the VA formulary. May need a request from your privae doc, also. About 4-5 yrs back VA directed their docs to do it and made a big public announcement of it.

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[DeltaGlenn]

As I remember you bring your prescription and or medications into your VA primiary care doctor and they will rewrite VA prescriptions if they feel the medications are required for treatment. I don't known how the VA would handle controlled sustances prescriptions.

[Pete53]

If they don't you still have an appeal process. Use it.

[Moe]

I have no problem at my VAMC. My Doc just requires the Doctors notes to see why the meds are prescribed.