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Originally Posted by flatbutt
Is it your belief that a doctor makes money from each prescription? Or are you making an indirect connection between writing a prescription and a subsequent office visit related to the script?
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My doc renews my scripts just by my entering a digit on my phone when I call the pharmacy. The pharmacy contacts the doctor for the renewal. About once a year the doc will tell me I need to come in. I don't mind. I figure he needs to get some money out of me for an office visit just to cover all the admin costs of his staff handling scripts renewals alone. Unless he's getting a kickback from the drug makers, I can't see how it's in his financial interest to write scripts. Last time I was in the waiting room there and a drug rep. came in to ask for a date to bring lunch to the office staff, they told him they were booking for 2019 already.