Prescription charges?

Question

I picked up my new prescription today and they were only one item printed on the script but the chemist charged me for 2 at 6.75 per item...When i questioned the pharmacist he told me that because white tablets for 11 days then white tablets for 10 days that there is a double charge...however they were all on one blister pack.....why did i have to pay for 2 scripts anyone any ans to this as I am baffled..

Answer 1

That doesn't sound right, I would call the insurance co, (the number should be on the back of your card) and ask them how many meds were charged and on what day, I have NEVER heard of that before and I am a poharmacy technician...

Answer 2

When you collect your prescription you have to pay for the number of drugs that have been dispensed. It sounds as if your medication contained two different drugs so therefore two charges will have to be collected. The prescription charge is a tax by the government and so does not go straight into the pharmacists pocket...whatever the public may think!
Another strange charge is: if the same drug is ordered by the doctor in two different strengths then only one charge is collected. If, however the two strengths are in different forms i.e. one is a capsule and one a tablet, then two collection charges need to be made.
Crazy, but true !

Answer 3

By per item they mean per packet, so if it comes in one box or blister pack you should be charged once at £6.75 Go back with the medication and ask about it to another chemist working there. That doesn't sound right.

Answer 4

Are you human beings so naive that you imagine the Scots and Welsh have become some thing for free. It purely potential those taxes are paid in different procedures. the position is all this money to conceal those expenditures coming from. The £7.20 does no longer even come on the point of paying the authentic value of maximum medicine and the reality is that when you've to have medicine frequently you should purchase a each and each and every year or quarterly bypass. when you whinge that they could't arise with the money for £7.20 and it may well be larger price tax payers who subsidise them my question is why. i'm a larger price tax payer who worked my way up from the slums of Liverpool by technique of exertions and assorted my personal time and money going into better training. Why ought to I pay better for my prescriptions than you do. I already pay better tax. in case you lived contained in the States or many different international places international huge you will get no medical therapy except you paid for all of it at finished value.

Answer 5

If there were two different types of tablets then i afraid this is right, you would have to pay double.
If they were the same tablets but different strengths then only one charge would have taken place, thats official sorry , i know it seems wrong but the government are seriously over charging on these anyway as they buy them in very cheap believe me.

Answer 6

Yes unfortunately you do have to pay.Certain drugs come in two parts and you have to pay for each separate drug,even if they are on one prescription and in the same blister pack.You have not been ripped off.
Next time you get a prescription ask your doc how much it`s going to be.

Answer 7

that is a charge per item, if the tablet was two different doses it would have been on a different strip youve been done, id go back and query it

Answer 8

It is possible that is right. Prescriptions are charged all different ways. What you should do is find out from your insurance how the pay for them.

Answer 9

You should be charged per item, so if you get one course of one drug you should pay £6.75. Ask your GP for advice.

Answer 10

Don't want to upset youbut in Wales, the Welsh National Assembley has reduced prescription charged to £4.00 for those who are eligible to pay.....next year they are scrapping the charge completely for EVERYONE!......Nice!