Prescription Medication in Disaster Areas
Due to the impact of the recent tornadoes, the United States Postal Service (USPS) and United Parcel Service (UPS) may experience delays in delivering mail to certain areas in Mississippi.
Visit https://about.usps.com/newsroom/service-alerts/residential/welcome.htm and https://www.ups.com/us/en/service-alerts.page to ensure your zip code isn’t on the list of areas that have been impacted. Please be sure to check these sites periodically, to ensure you have the most up-to-date information.
This interruption in service could impact the timely delivery of prescription medication to our Veterans.
Veterans in the impacted area are eligible to refill their prescriptions previously filled at a VA pharmacy, at an in-network pharmacy. If a Veteran affected by the disaster needs a refill on a prescription, the network pharmacy is authorized to fill an emergency supply of all VA pharmacy prescriptions in accordance with the Veteran’s VA Pharmacy issued prescription bottle/label (sample below) or through approval from a VA Pharmacy staff member. The Disaster Benefit has been extended to all Veterans residing in the following zip codes:
- Sharkey County: 38721, 38765, 39054, 39061, 39159
- Humphreys County: 39038, 38754, 38924, 39097, 39166, 39115
- Monroe County: 38821,39730,38858, 38860, 39740, 39746, 38870, 38848, 38825
To view pharmacy billing information on your mobile device, visit: https://www.va.gov/COMMUNITYCARE/docs/programs/OCC-Billing-Information-Card.pdf
Note the unique billing code for the disaster is Group: RX0837
**Please provide this billing information when you visit an in-network retail pharmacy to fill a prescription**