Under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) an individual or family will pay no more than €124 each calendar month for:
approved prescribed drugs and medicines
If you don’t have a medical card and you pay more than €124 a month for any of these, you should apply.
Under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) an individual or family will pay no more than €124 each calendar month for:
approved prescribed drugs and medicines
Under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) an individual or family will pay no more than €124 each calendar month for:
The pharmacy are correct to charge you €124 for Decembers medication . It’s confusing when you are on a weekly medication . I’m in a weekly medication also . I’ve been on this fir a number of years [/QUOTE said:Does this mean that he will get the drugs due on 28th Dec for no payment or does he have to wait until 25th January ( the 3rd month)
Therefore they should give you 5 weeks medication every third month .
Thanks for the info and link there. I'll do this.While I believe you are correct in your interruption you can always apply for a refund, get a claim form from your Local Health Office, online at drugspayment.ie, or by calling 1890 252 919. Return the completed claim form to the address given on the form. You can check the status of your application for a refund at drugspayment.ie.Apr 1, 2019
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I spoke with the pharmacist about getting the 5 injection for the month with 5 weeks.This is the reason for the problem. The OP needs to discuss it with the Pharmacist.
If he had received 5 weeks medication for November there would be no issue. The pharmacist may intend to give the 5 weeks supply in the third month. This will effectively be the same thing but won't tie in with the calendar months as the OP expects it should.
Perhaps if asked, the pharmacist will supply one more injection for December which will mean it will be January before another payment needs to be made. This should resolve the issue.
Thanks for all that Clamball. Not that I want anyone else to have hassle but it was good to see I wasnt the only one!! I've actually called the HSE and asked if they would change the wording on the 1st page of their site referring to DPS. Thank you for the good wishes too.I really sympathise with you Freddie, it can be really difficult dealing with ongoing health issues and the vagaries of the health system at the same time.
The problem might lie in a few places but the solution is to ask the pharmacy to give you a fifth dose to cover November (which you have already paid for) and let the 4 doses you picked up last Saturday cover December.
You doc wants you to take medication once a week for 3 months or 13 weeks. If she wrote take for 13 weeks and if you pharmacy dispensed 13 doses in one go the HSE would have a conniption that you got 3 months drugs for 1 months payment so the HSE tells the pharmacist to dispense 1 month at a time. Now your doc knows this and may have said take 1 dose weekly for 3 months which the pharmacist is interpreting to mean 4 doses x 3 = 12 doses, 4 every month. They don’t see the issue but it means for you do you take a dose last Saturday or miss it because there is 5 Saturdays in November or finish earlier in Jan. Again you should ask your pharmacist for a 5th dose to cover November. Or maybe your doctor is happy for you to have 12 and not 13 doses, a question only she can answer.
there are many people who get caught up in this end of month payment. You are due to get your nexts month supply on sat 28th but what if you are away for holidays or travelling, people often like to have next months a week early to have it in stock etc, so the chemist often will say this will cover Jan so pay the money now for Jan etc.
Maybe you doc said 4 doses for 3 months taken weekly with her forgetting that Nov had 5 Saturdays. So perhaps she is expecting you to finish the medication after 12 weeks which is around the 18th Jan so you pay for 5 doses in Nov, 4 in Dec and 3 in Jan?
Overall talk to you pharmacist, she will help you interpret what your doctor wrote and if it is different to what you recall your doctor saying to you then phone you GP to clarify. And do ask for an extra dose to cover the 5 weeks in November.
Bedt of luck with the health.
Under the Drugs Payment Scheme (DPS) an individual or family will pay no more than €124 each calendar month for:
approved prescribed drugs and medicines
If you don’t have a medical card and you pay more than €124 a month for any of these, you should apply.
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