Walmart Pharmacy

My wife's neurologist ordered this prescription:

"Rivastigmine Transdermal System (24 hour patch)
each system delivers 4.6 mg/24 hours
Rx only
Cash (List Price): $479.85
Patient Pay (including discount card, e.g. Good Rx, etc.): $71.27" 

WOW! 

I'm speechless.


We give Walmart Pharmacy a 5 out of 5. There's one small glitch however. 

A few days before the monthly prescription ran out, we received a text message from Walmart.

"Do you want us to refill your prescription?" YES

"Do you want us to refill your prescription automatically each month?" YES

"We will text message you when your prescription is ready to be picked up." That didn't happen.

I checked Walmart Pharmacy's website. It showed that the prescription was ready for pickup.

I mentioned this to Walmart's clerk when I picked up the prescription. She said that they were having to call people 7 days after their prescriptions were filled to come pick up their prescriptions. She also said that Walmart Pharmacy was "upgrading" (wink wink) their system.

Lesson learned: Use Walmart Pharmacy's website. Walmart's text messaging is unreliable.


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