PEHP contracts with a Mexican pharmacy, Provide Rx, and Hospital Angeles. Provide RX doesn't even have a storefront like the ones you think of when you hear "Mexican pharmacy." Instead, patients make all the arrangements through their docs in Utah and then send the paperwork to Provide RX, which delivers the meds to the hospital ahead of time.
Looks like this is becoming a regular thing:
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U.S. border officials have created a "medical lane" at the San Ysidro crossing to streamline reentry, and Provide Rx briefs patients on the usual script: "Always declare your medicine as personal use."
And it's spreading:
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It's planning to start a second destination soon, flying patients to Vancouver, Canadaland, where "a clinic is right inside the airport."
How about that!
-------------------------------- Life is short. Play with your dog.
My folks had some of their prescriptions filled in Nogales for years. It saved them a ton of money, especially when their drug wasn't on the list of "approved" medications for their insurance.
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