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Bruce D

1 reviews | Active since Feb 2011

20 Oct 2015, 15:53

How dare you charge me a service levy of 20%?

I opted to NOT make use of MedXpress anymore because they DON'T fulfill in my needs as a pharmacy to provide me with my chronic medications. I complained to MedXpress that I don't get the service I require by way of not getting invoices from MedXpress for my co-payments and then be told that their system doesn't generate invoices. Furthermore the reordering system online doesn't work for me where I was without medication for 3 days due to the way it is set up to work on my cell phone as an app. I then decided to end my relationship with MedXpress for all medications and deal with Dischem directly. I have just in the past 10 minutes spoken to a lady from MedXpress in Durban and she told me that if I choose to get my Trivenz directly from Dischem then there will be a 20% service levy charged on my chronic medication called Trivenz. I find that totally unacceptable and just WRONG. Firstly we were FORCED to move over from Atripla to Trivenz due to a co-payment that Discovery would charge for staying with the Atripla so then we decided to move over to Trivenz in order to side step the levy/ co-payment. Now I hear that if I don't use MedXpress then I would STILL be subject to pay a 20%.

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Discovery Health
Discovery Health's reply21 Oct 2015, 13:01
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Hello chilipip,

Thank you for your comment and we're truly sorry you feel this way.

Sustaining lower benefit options in the scheme is challenging, and we are doing everything we can to keep the premium contribution increases down. Consequently, we have appointed MedXpress as a designated service provider in respect to the medication you require. As per the discussion with our team, we confirmed that you can get a receipt from the DisChem Pharmacy where you collect your medication.

Please understand that the MedXpress service is voluntary and entirely up to our members to take advantage of it or not. I am sorry that we could not offer you a different outcome.

Regards
Rishana