Insurance question...

Can an afterhours physician write prescriptions for products like Chantix?

I ask this for a non-insured friend of mine whom has no health insurance...

Thanks!

I'll suggest to him that he can go to one of these clinics and have a prescription written there.

Thanks!

but make sure your friend tells whatever doctor he sees about any conditions he might have that might not make Chantix the best choice.

There are an awful lot of side effects, some more serious than others. (Though the only one I had was really horrible nausea, but it was worth sticking with the drug.) I sure hope your friend has success with it.

Luckily everything I've needed came in generics.

The right of a physician to write prescriptions isn't an insurance question - am I missing something?

As long as a physician is licensed in the state to prescribe the medication being prescribed, insurance really doesn't have anything to do with it (unless I'm missing something). We've been traveling out of town and had to find physician friends to write emergency prescriptions for medications we've left at home. Those physicians were not formally working at all at the time they wrote the prescription.

Are you asking about something like urgent care centers? (More fancy equipment than a doctor's office, and no appointment necessary, but less equipment than an emergency room?) In that case, it would probably be up to the policy of the urgent care center. As a one-time-patient, they might not want to be responsible for any on-going monitoring that is necessary. When I've gotten a prescription from them for something that might need to be on-going or monitored, they gave me a limited prescription intended to tide me over until I could see my regular physician.