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Also insurance companies no longer want you going to a drug store for prescriptions. That immediate drug your doctor prescribes is fine, anything filled monthly your insurance company gets you to switch to their mail delivery.
They even get your doctor to approve 90 day supply so you only need to get your medications every 3 months.
Insurance companies cut out the middle man. CVS even purchased a health insurance company.
The only people going to the local pharmacy are the young people who need a prescription cream and old people who hold up the pharmacy line.
If you’re going to need the med for more than 90 days it makes sense to get a 90 day supply instead of 30 or less and is typically cheaper. That was one of the shitty things pharmacies would do is just give you a reduced or small amount because they don’t carry a lot of stock and they can charge you again/more when you come back to refill
Most of the reasons pharmacies don’t give more than 30 days supply is due to their PBM contracts not allowing it. They force you to use a pharmacy that they own for a 90 day supply. It is not a pharmacy stock issue for most prescription.
Many pharmacies would love to fill it for 90 days as they wouldn’t lose customers to a mail order pharmacy that is owned by the insurance company / PBM / all the other vertically integrated parts of the business.