Please call your pharmacy for refill requests, not our office.

Please allow three (3) business days for refill requests to be processed

Please plan ahead: routine prescriptions are not refilled after hours.

If you have a managed care health plan, and the medicine you need is not on their formulary, you may need to obtain a Prior Authorization Request (PAR).

This requires filling out paperwork. Since every insurance company uses a different PAR form, rather than put the form on this web site, we ask that you come in to fill out the form in our office.

We will then submit the PAR, usually by fax. It can take several weeks for the insurance company to respond, so please ask if we have samples to tide you over when you come in to fill out the form.

If you have a "tiered" system of co-pays for medications, please be sure to ask the pharmacist what the medication actually costs. Occasionally, your co-pay will exceed the cost of your medication.

For example, DIFLUCAN, the popular oral medication for vaginal yeast infections is "third tier" on the Pacificare plan. The co-pay is therefore $30, while the medication actually costs $15.

Be aware, because often the pharmacist won't tell you!

Prescriptions at our office:  If you are ill, we have initiated a program to provide many medications for acute illnesses in our office.  Most prescriptions are $15; exceptions are pyridium, a bladder pain medicine, which costs $5 ($12 at King Soopers) and Zpacks, which cost $20 ($55 at King Soopers). 

These are for your convenience.  We do not accept insurance for this service, usually the cost will be less than your pharmacy copay, and is always quite a bit less expensive than the cost of the medicine at your local pharmacy.

Now that you think of it, have you noticed that prescriptions take 20-30 minutes (minimum) even if the pharmacy is not busy?  This is a calculated business strategy of pharmacies today, intended to increase sales of sundries. 

We are trying to spare our ill patients this inconvenient delay.