The bottles
Muster puts every prescription on one pickup day. Copy each bottle's label, press Line them up, and get the short fills to ask your pharmacist for.
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Pickups, as they are now
Each dot is a trip to the pharmacy for one bottle.
Next 90 days
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trips
Set aside: ask your pharmacist
How Muster worked this out
- Run-out day = fill date + days' supply (or today + pills on hand ÷ pills a day, if you counted).
- It tries every possible pickup day in the next cycle, skipping days the pharmacy is closed, and keeps the one with the fewest trips in the next 90 days, then the fewest short-fill days.
- A short fill covers the days from a bottle's run-out to the pickup day, so it lands exactly on it. Short fills due close together are collected on one trip, never after a bottle runs out and never more than a fifth of the supply early.
- A bottle due just after the pickup day is refilled a few days early on it instead. Many plans allow that once about 80% of a supply is used.
- Copay estimates use a daily rate: copay ÷ days' supply × days filled. Medicare Part D plans must charge a daily rate for short fills of tablets and capsules (42 CFR 423.153(b)(4)); other plans vary.
- Doses never change. The pharmacist checks the plan against the pharmacy record.