Cat's meds put on our insurance @ Pharmacy!

[Hoof Hearted]

Funny, or what?!
I just don't want this to come back and bite me on the ass as insurance fraud.

Reilly's vet gave us a prescription for him to be filled at a pharmacy. We went to our own...and the girl looked a little funny at the prescrip paper, I guess because it was green and not white, and we explained it was from our vet and for our cat. We left my name and our phone number to call us if they had any questions and we returned several hours later to pick it up. We made additional purchases so I didn't pay attention to the cost of the medicine. We were only charged a co-pay amount.

After I got home and had already used the product on Reilly...I noticed they had put the medicine in my name and charged our insurance, though Dr Wise was named as the Dr...and I'm sure SHE isn't in our plan of approved Doctors.

[TheMercenary]

Himmmm... could be a problem, I would expect a letter from the insurance company.

[Hoof Hearted]

Hopefully not. I'm taking the paperwork in tomorrow (Monday) and seeing what they can do to fix it. I'm sure it was just a mix-up on their end. I know husband and I clearly stated it was from the vet and for our cat. The difference in cost is only another $6 or $7.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Hey Hoof, put Reilly as a dependent on your income tax.

[Hoof Hearted]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Hey Hoof, put Reilly as a dependent on your income tax.

Yeah?! <laughing> ...and what about the part where I don't want anything to come back and bite me on the ass? Sheesh! Nevermind our insurance, now you want me to get the Federal Government involved?
You don't really like me, do you?

[wolf]

Friends of mine, before their child was aged out of their insurance, used to have the cat's scripts written as "L. Lastname" instead of "Liu Lastname," because the girl's first initial was "L."

It worked.

[Hoof Hearted]

Originally Posted by wolf

It worked.

Only because insurance didn't catch that the Dr was a DVM and not an MD.... I couldn't take the chance that our insurance would catch it.

I got it taken care of this morning.
I told the Pharmacist that I had a possible problem with the prescription and my insurance...First, this prescrip was not for me, it was for Reilly. Lastly, Dr Wise was not on my list of preferred providers and the reason she is not on my list of preferred providers is because she is a veterinarian and Rei is a cat...

Pharmacist and I had a great laugh over it. He showed me the prescrip and where the window girl had written my name, b-day and phone number on the front, just under Reilly's name. Whoever filled it, used my name so it went through our insurance.

All fixed, now and no one should be coming after us!

[xoxoxoBruce]

You're lucky it was a cheap scrip.

[Hoof Hearted]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You're lucky it was a cheap scrip.

About $11.00 so it certainly isn't that bad. Though it does not appear to be doing very much for Rei. He did not have a good day today, did not want to eat, though he did drink.

We know we are going to lose him to this degenerative problem, but it appears it may be happening sooner than we want.
hh

[xoxoxoBruce]

Bummer.