What happens when your doctor gets sick?
If you in Kaiser..not much.. they are replaced by doctors who are not sick.
If your doctor is in private practice.. the office shuts down and you can forget getting drug refills or authorizations.
So what is the economic costs of a day of no billing? A doctor let slip to one of my friends.. 4000 dollars.
We have a doctor that was sick this week when Sue needed a "patch" refill. Luckily she had an out of date refill on one of her patches that game her three day grace period.
Pretty serious.
Tonight I am going down to pick up the refill for the month. I always check to see that they have the medication on their shelves before I leave the pharmacy. Sometimes they don't and I have to take the paper to the cross town pharmacy and hope they have it on the shelf. Its one of those triplicate meds. The patient must request it nearly the same time that it is due. Then the pharmacist must fill it and it must be picked up right a way.
So today I did the delicate dance to get this to happen.
Have a good one
Pat
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