15 days of UTI
Yeah, that same UTI. It's still here. To top it off, I caught a cold this week and now also fighting off a cough & sore throat. After my friend's sister, who's a doctor, told me that my kidneys are deteriorating as we speak and a coworker telling me that one of our student got her seizure disorder from an untreated kidney infection (poor thing gets 2 seizures a day), and then my cousin telling me about her coworker who's kidney failed at age 30, I decided to try and navigate the Kaiser system again. I called urgent care at 6:00 and finally spoke to someone at 6:30. She said to pick up my prescription in 2 hours.
I called the pharmacy at 8pm and they said there's no record of my order! great, this again. After a lot of waiting and talking to supervisors, a supervisor finally called to confirm that he spoke to the pharmacy and the order is in. yay!
So we visit my parents first, then headed to the hospital and they handed me my prescription and said there was no charge! yay! anyone know why there was no charge?
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The might not have been a charge because the pharmacy (especially if it's located in the hospital) may intend billing the medical insurance company first, which means you will probably receive an insurance claim statement in the mail within the month, followed by another bill from the pharmacy/hospital's financial department with for the uncovered charges. This happened to me once when I used a hospital pharmacy.
Then again, maybe the meds are free due to extenuating circumstances associated with the severity of your medical condition... or based on the number of pills and the specific medication you were prescribed.