Welcome to another installment of Ask The Angry Pharmacist, where the most famous pharmacist on the planet (heh) answers YOUR questions and concerns in a not-so-nice (usually) way! This is a genuine question, so I won’t be burning her at the stake (much) For those of you new here, mail druglord@theangrypharmacist.com with your questions and [...]

If anyone would come up to me while I’m filling Rx’s and say “Boy, you look like you’re hard at work” I would just give a casual smile and continue along. However, that line coming from someone who is on welfare is like nails on chalkboard.  On Monday, the busiest day for pharmacies everywhere, having [...]

Out of your options for refusing to help with the current (non) cutbacks (see, that is what a court order does genius, STOPS something from being implemented, hence NO 10% cut….oh, skip trying to explain THIS to a pharmacist) I must take option 3 below. Genius? Me? Did you even read the first paragraph of [...]

As you have read before, California instated a 10% cut for its Medicaid Rx reimbursement.  However, last Saturday the courts overturned the ruling until 8/11/08.  Their computer systems still have the 10% cut, but they will let us know how they wish to deal with that ball of wax once the shit stops falling from [...]

This is a note that I get paperclipped by my clerks to an Rx on a somehwhat daily basis.  Gee, what other med would this person ever need when he/she is getting vicodin and soma? For your information (and morbid curiosity), the “other med” was some lisinopril.  A whopping $6 worth of medication and although [...]

Never fails.  I write a long rant about some addict and pain pills and no less than 3 months later I have 100 comments that all start with: “I’m a chronic pain patient that takes 120 norco a month blah blah blah life story life story life story I dont think its fair that you [...]

Yesterday the California Medicaid system (Medi-Cal) cut reimbursements by 10% across the boards for Doctors, Dentists and Pharmacies.  For pharmacies this was both the dispensing fee AND the drug cost reimbursement. Yesterday is also the day where if your MediCal Rx costs over $150, pharmacies will lose money due to the state reimbursing below the [...]