Early Fill 2 Days Insurance Will Pay

I have insurance that covers my oxycodone prescription once every 30 days. However, can I fill a prescription early if I don't use my insurance? ## The pharmacists check the Prescription Monitoring Program in your state before filling these rxs. It will depend on how early it is and also on the pharmacist. The only thing your insurance company decides is if it is too early they won't pay for it. The insurance company has nothing to do with you being able to fill it early. ## its all up to the pharmacist, you can say you are leaving town and make it sound far, so they wont say just have them call us, actually they cant anymore cuz of stick drug laws just say your leaving town for a few weeks, oxtcontin 20mg alone is $300,00 did you know that? but Oxycodone 10 mg are not expensive...

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Please understand early refills depend on insurance and federal law most scripts have to be 90% complete before a refill is authorized some even with controlled substances will do it 7-9 days ahead of time my xanax gets refilled 7 days early everytime with no issues but understand unless your insurance authorizes a week early refill the pharmacy by law cant do nothing even if you wanna pay with cash ## A Pharmacy that fills a controlled substance early is not following the law correctly. I find my insurance will pay for a new refill at the 75% point. I am able to stock up on extra meds. This should not work the same way for Xanax and doesn't. Still I have over 1000 extra, go figure? ## Will CVS fill my perscroption for diazapam one day early. I have adhisive capulitas. Itake 5mg in ...

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Please help!! I am new to this site, this is my first time posting on anything like this. I will be blunt and right to the point! Every month I get 120 Norcos, I have Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance, I live in Michigan! Can I get two early refills back-to-back if I call my insurance company and explain the situation!? We're going out of the country on the 12th and won't be back in till next month and I will definitely be on my medicine by then! But the only problem is I just got a refill last month on the 27th! And last month I called my insurance and got it filled 12 days early because I left on vacation out of country! So now I'm just wondering if I can do this two times in a row? And just pay out-of-pocket!? Or can I go to another pharmacy and say that I don't ha...

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I wear a 100 Mcg Fentyl patch every 48 hrs., and I get a 20 day supply. I love in New Jersey, how many days early can I refill my new script? OR what percentage of my prior script needs to be used before I can refill it? ## DEA database doesn't matter whether you have insurance or cash pay the standard is no more then the 28th day unless you have a new paper prescription that changes the directions or the quantity that's it 28 days is the earliest but you can expect it on the 29th or 30th day or later if you go into a pharmacy Acting like you're Jones in for an early script but with the DEA database there is no filling early -- nothing to do with whether or not insurance pays ! Insurance used to have a 75% rule DEA has a 28 day rule ! ## If you use CV and WAL you can And I d...

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Is it the insurance or pharmacy who decides if an early refill is ok? I'm talking 3-4 days early. ## That's a good question. I'd recommend double checking with your insurance company just to be sure... but I wanna say that it probably is the insurance who has the say, if they are the one's paying for it. Some policies I've heard of actually state that you can't get a refill until you're at least 75% through your prescription. And apparently that is calculated/determined from the date you first got it filled. 3-4 days early sounds like it fits comfortably above that margin, so you may be just fine, depending on the type of insurance you have. I'd imagine that other companies policies could also be a lot different as well. I hope this helps!

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I got my Percocet rx on March 15th which was actually 7 days early, but the pharmacist let me pay cash for it. Would I be able to run it through my insurance tomorrow, which would be about 32 days I believe? Or will they stop me from getting it filled? What do you think? April 15th will be 32 days if I'm correct on my math. Now that could be questionable. :) Thanks...... ## It depends on the specifics. Is it 32 days from when you had it filled the last time, or just 32 days from when your insurance covered having it filled? I'm sorry, I can't see when you posted this question, so I must ask you for more details. These details are logged in a government database, so both the government, and your insurance will know when you last had it filled. As to the 7 days early, there ca...

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Hi I get prescribed 60 8/2 mg suboxone sublingual strips a month. I just went to the dr for my script, now my insurance will pay for them today but every pharmacy I go to tells me too early. I'm leaving for fl in the morning. I need my meds today. every pharmacy is disrespectful. I'm about to tell my dr the dope boy never gave me an issue about coming too early. I'm about to buy 2 bundles that should last me 10 days. I wanna stay clean but it's so hard dealing with the dr, insurance, and pharmacy. it's freakin me out. what should I do? ## Hello, Derrick! How are you? I'm sorry, but there's really nothing that can be done about this, they aren't supposed to fill controlled substance prescriptions early. The only idea I can think of is asking your regular p...

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I just received my new norco prescription 120 pills and it has been 28 days not 30. Cvs always makes me wait the 30 days. Does anyone know of a pharmacy that will fill a few days early and takes insurance in the Pearland, League City, Pasadena, or Houston area? ## whoa, there are aloT OF PPL that cannot find a dr to prescribe this medication. Trying to fill at any pharmacy before 30 days will cause you to get red flagged. Last year i could pick up the script 28 days it being up to the pharmacist and insurance pays for 26-27 days but its up to the pharmacist. Now that that drug has been reclassified i personally wouldnt attemp to fill until 29 days (Maybe) idk know if id really try to not the state im in and its 2015 they reclassified that drug so just be careful and dont give them nosy ...

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My prescription has a print date on it but also had a start date. The start date is for October 4th and the print date is September 6th. Can I fill it after the print date or do I have to wait until the start date? ## Usually, it would go by the start date, since that is when your doctor intended you to start the medication, according to FDA directives. What medication is the prescription for? Is it a controlled substance? That can also have a bearing on the answer. Did you ask your pharmacy? ## If it doesn’t say “don’t fill before” and it’s not a controlled substance you should he able to fill it whenever, but insurance companies will usually only pay up to 3 days early. So if you just filled they’re not going to pay until right before you’re d...

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