Continuity of Care
Continuity of care should be among the highest priorities of any pharmacy. Processing refills of important medications without a lapse is crucial. If the provider and patient follow the procedures, but there's a problem at the pharmacy's end, alternatives should be presented immediately and followed up. It's the pharmacy's duty to expedite, assist and communicate until the meds are in the patient's hands. Express Scripts' robotic, overburdened system has completely detached itself from that duty. Courteous customer service representatives, when you finally get to speak to one, have neither the expertise nor authority to resolve problems. Communications – email, text, phone, online account – often contain contradictory, misleading or outright false information. In the absence of ethics and competence, Express Scripts ceases to be a pharmacy and becomes nothing more than a pharmaceutical warehouse. For Tricare's military families, it's a terribly sad violation of trust.
By David

