Choose the pharmacy that suits your week
Choose the pharmacy your prescriptions are sent to, and change it whenever your life changes.
Prescriptions used to be a paper slip you carried from the office to the drugstore. They travel electronically now, so somebody has to tell the office which counter to send yours to. You can say it at the visit, and you can change it any time in the pharmacy’s own app.
Key points
- Say what a preferred pharmacy is, in one sentence
- Change yours in under a minute, as often as your life needs
- Choose on hours and delivery rather than on distance
- Expect one straggler at the old counter, and nothing after that
What to remember
- Hours and delivery matter far more than distance. The nearest pharmacy is often not the easiest one.
- Hours and delivery are the two that change your week. Distance rarely is.
Try this
Look up the hours of the pharmacy your prescriptions go to now. If it closes before you can get there, that is a five-minute problem. If you take the same medicine every month, ask your plan about mail order as well.
Practice: Choose the pharmacy that suits your week. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.