Once you see a physician, get a diagnosis, and get a prescription for the medication you need, the hard part should be over, right? But sometimes people face long searches to find a pharmacy that can fill their prescription in the face of shortages and uncertain supply lines for medications that many people need. You have to sit by the phone and call pharmacy after pharmacy only to be told “sorry, it’s not in stock”.
Enter Medfinder.com, an online service that, for a small subscription fee, searches all the pharmacies in your area to find the meds you need. Started by regular folks who were frustrated by constant shortages and difficult searches, Medfinder utilizes “pharmacy-level inventory data” to find out where a medication may be available.
You can sign up for a single search, or a regular subscription, and the service looks for the availability of your medication within your zip code, moving gradually further away if the search proves difficult. According to their website, most searches find a match within 2 to 24 hours, but more complicated or unusual medications can take longer. They will work with you to find your prescription medication in a location you can access, at a pharmacy that takes your insurance, and, if you go within a reasonable time frame to pick it up only to find it’s out of stock, Medfinder will run another search at no extra charge.
Shortages of many medications (especially stimulants) has been an ongoing problem for our patients for years, and we are glad to see this entry into the patient-support field. Both patients and fellow providers have given Medfinder high marks, and we are happy to be able to recommend it.
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