If you transfer a prescription with refills available does the Rx tell the date?

Yes of course. All information is communicated to the new store.

And all information is on the label on the bottle. Read the small print. It gives the date of the original RX, the date of the last refill and the number of refills left, plus size and amount of daily dosage.

The question doesn’t even make sense. She wants to transfer to a cheaper pharmacy, but her worry is the new pharmacy knows the last time it was filled? It sounds more like she is transferring to be able to fill the script again not for the price.

If the drug is not controlled, is not a narcotic or similar, she can probably refill if she pays out of pocket. The insurance controls how often it is able to be refilled in that case, not the pharmacy.

@JLeslie That’s true, unless it’s a controlled substance. Then gov’ment regulations come into play.

They will know. It will be with the information transferred.

All information about the prescription will go from the first pharmacy to the second, including dates dispensed and remaining refills. Additionally, if it’s a Schedule II drug, the first pharmacy will send a physical copy of the original prescription with the doctor’s DEA# and signature. Some pharmacies will not transfer Schedule II drug prescriptions at all; requiring the doctor’s office to fax a new prescription to the new pharmacy.

Being filled “within the same month” doesn’t matter as long as long as your friend is obviously following the dosing/dispensing schedule. Ex: #60 Adderall to be taken twice daily could be filled on the first of the month and refilled close to the end of the month, but not refilled a week after the first dispensing. The pharmacies are responsible for monitoring the patient’s usage, so they communicate everything with the patient, the prescriber and any other pharmacies.

Thanks @Blueroses this is exactly what she wanted to know.

If your friend uses insurance to pay for the prescription, the info can transfer, but the presciption will not be refilled until your friend has less than a week worth of pills (the amount of pills depends on the insurance carrier).

The exact problem is that she paid more for the script at the new pharmacy because she didn’t know it was going to be more and she had already filled a prescription for the same drug at her usual pharmacy 3 days before that now she wants to transfer the script back to the original pharmacy. Will the fact that she filled her last refill 3 days before the other one that she wants transfered interfere with the refills being transfered back to original drugstore?

I’m a little confused. She your friend actually pick up the drug at the new pharmacy? Nothing counts until the drug is actually bought. If it is simply sitting on the shelf at the drug store waiting for her, it doesn’t count as filled yet. I will assume she did buy it already. In that case:

If it is a controlled substance, also called a triplicate drug, she won’t be able to fill it. If it isn’t and she is paying for it herself, no insurance she will be able to buy it. If she is using insurance, she won’t be able to get it.

All she has to do is call the pharmacy and ask to be sure, why doesn’t she do that?

I think I understand the situation. :) The confusion is just language, between original fill and refills remaining.
This is a drug your friend has been taking for a while.
She was having it filled at Pharmacy A until that prescription expired.
She got a new prescription and took it to Pharmacy B, not realizing there would be a price difference between pharmacies. This constitutes a new Rx = 1 fill and #refills.
She hasn’t actually purchased the drug from Pharmacy B, but she’s concerned that just having the Rx entered into that system will take away the first fill available to her.

Do I have that right?

The scrip will give a total number of fills. (First fill + 4 refills = fill this 5 times). If she didn’t pick up the first fill from pharmacy B, there are still 5 fills available and all of those will transfer to pharmacy A.

It doesn’t matter when she picked up the last fill on the old prescription. The new scrip won’t start subtracting available fills until she physically picks them up.

@Blueroses Wow. Not sure how you got that from what was said. You might very well be right that the main concern is as you stated. I hope the OP comes back to clarify.

@silky1 Not sure if this will help, but it is ok to have two prescriptions for the exact same drug at one pharmacy. Use up the refills on one, and then start on the new prescription. The pharmacy will keep a record of both at once, no problem, just make sure your friend is using up the old script first (she should point out to the person refilling she wants to use up the old script first) so the new one will last. Even if a script has refills, if it is over a year from the original date the prescription was written she will not be able to get refills on it.