Prescriptions
If you need a 3 month prescription for your mail order pharmacy, please notify the nurse/medical assistant at the time of your appointment.
We are equally frustrated that medications are often the most expensive part of routine healthcare. If your insurance plan has a high deductible for medications that has not been met, please inform Dr. Brown or the medical assistant. We always try to provide rebate cards and/or samples when possible. If you find that your medication is too expensive or not covered, please leave a message for our medical assistants so that we can try to prescribe a more reasonable alternative.
Medication Refills
Before you come to your regular appointment, please look over your dermatology medications to determine if you need to request any new prescriptions for the next year at the time of your appointment.
In order to ensure that you are receiving the most appropriate and accurate treatment, we will only be able to prepare regular pharmacy prescriptions and refills during a scheduled office visit. Please notify the medical assistants of all possible medications that may need to be refilled during the next year at the time of your appointment. Refills for most medications last for one year, at which time we will be happy to see you again in the office for another prescription. We recommend that you take advantage of your medication refills before they expire.
During your office visit, we will write your prescriptions with adequate refills to last until your next follow-up appointment. In response to fax requests from pharmacies or call-ins for prescription renewals, we will kindly ask that you come into the office for an appointment. (Please note that this policy does not apply to compounded Retin-A or Hydroquinone lightening cream refills, since each of these refills must be authorized through our office every time).
We recommend that you schedule your recommended follow-up appointment at each visit to prevent any unexpected medication emergencies.