Pill organizers are now officially old news. The new thing beginning to emerge is blister packaging for medications. This is when pharmacies essentially bubble pack medications by dose. They can package each medication individually in a blister pack or grouped together by time of day they are taken. This makes taking medications easy by having your pharmacist organize all of your medications for you. All you have to do is pop them out and take them when it’s time.
Blister packaging isn’t covered by insurance for the same reasons medication delivery isn’t. Blister packs are considered a service provided by the pharmacy itself and not a covered benefit like the medications themselves. Yet, I don’t believe we’ve ever seen a pharmacy charge for it. The issue is usually that a pharmacy just doesn’t offer it. This is because it requires the pharmacy to make a large investment into the machine to do it. Outside of Amazon, we really haven’t seen many local pharmacies use this technology. If you search or work with a Local Medicare Agent you can find a local pharmacy that can provide this service. The benefit to using the local pharmacy is that if you get a new medication before your next refills or if you have any issues, the local pharmacy can clean it up and get anything you need delivered the same or next day. If you cannot find a local pharmacy, Amazon is now offering this service with their mail order pharmacy benefit. They work with most all major insurances. To get set up with them simply CLICK HERE.