What is a Suboxone Doctor Online?
Finding a Suboxone doctor online can be a challenge. A Google search does not always provide the results we’re looking for. A Suboxone doctor online is typically a physician at a clinic licensed to provide Suboxone telemedicine treatment to patients in their local state, such as Tennessee.
And, just because you find a Suboxone doctor online does not mean they are licensed to provide Suboxone telemedicine treatment. In fact, only a select few clinics in the state of Tennessee are licensed and accredited to provide online Suboxone treatment to Tennessean’s.
Is Your Suboxone Doctor Online a BeSMART Physician
In the state of Tennessee, only a BeSMART-certified clinic can staff Suboxone doctors who provide online treatment. Yes, thanks to COVID 19 there are times (or were) when any Suboxone doctor could provide telemedicine Suboxone treatment, but this was only to ensure that patients received their medications necessary for uninterrupted recovery, not a day-to-day practice.
To find a truly Suboxone doctor online who can provide 100% telemedicine treatment in the state of Tennessee means their facility must be BeSMART-certified by TennCare Medicaid or TennCare Medicare health insurance.
What is TennCare BeSMART?
BeSMART is an accreditation program that only a select few clinics have undergone in Tennessee that allows them additional freedoms to their online Suboxone doctors and online Suboxone patients when it comes to providing treatment.
More than just the allowance of online Suboxone treatment, BeSMART affiliation means a clinic and its Suboxone doctors have passed a stringent quality test, and are providing both clinic and online Suboxone treatment at a higher level than most other clinics in the state.
A Suboxone doctor online and their patients receive many additional benefits and priorities that are often very beneficial. Just one example of these many benefits BeSMART clinics receive from TennCare is express processing of their patient’s prior authorization approvals. Instead of 24-48 hours, TennCare insurance prior authorizations are often processed in a matter of hours. (Click here to learn more about Suboxone at FDA.gov)
To me that doesn’t sound very exciting. Yet, it’s actually a HUGE benefit to any BeSMART clinic’s patients. A TennCare insurance prior authorization is necessary for most TennCare insured patients because it provides the coverage of their Suboxone medication costs. Thanks to TennCare’s awesome prescription coverage, an approved medication prior authorization means that a patient gets their Suboxone medications at $0 cost to them.
That can be a savings of $300 or more per month! When I first got started in my recovery I was paying $644 per month for my Suboxone medications. There were no coupons, no discounts, and I didn’t have health insurance to offset the cost of my medications. Only later did I get Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance and they covered the cost of my Suboxone films.
I then lost my health insurance for a period of many years and as a result I switched to generic Suboxone tablets.
Despite my preferring the tablets anyway, generic Suboxone tablets also provided me a cost savings of roughly $444 per month. The cost at that time for 60 generic Suboxone tablets was approximately $200. GoodRX.com began providing discount coupons for generic Suboxone tablets dropping my price down to about $125 for 56 tablets.
The pricing and coupon discounts at GoodRX.com for 56 generic Suboxone tablets fluxuates almost daily. At time of writing, 56 generic Suboxone tablets at GoodRX.com cost $147.56 which is outstanding savings for anyone without commercial or TennCare health insurance.
The NON-BeSMART Suboxone Clinic Experience
Imagine it’s your first visit at a non-BeSmart certified clinic as a result of finding a quality Suboxone doctor online. You’re in withdrawal (or close to it) and are in dire need of either Suboxone or more of your drug of choice before the real discomfort sinks in.
You’ve finished your appointment with your Suboxone doctor online and a therapist and are now in a hurry to get started on Suboxone medication to avoid painful opioid withdrawals.
The only hang-up is, you’re having to wait for TennCare to approve your prior authorization and it takes another whole day before it gets approved. That means another day of extreme discomfort as a result of opioid withdrawals, or simply returning to your drug of choice to avoid withdrawal which seems ridiculous since you’re just been to a Suboxone doctor online.
The BeSMART Suboxone Clinic Experience
Instead, imagine it’s your first visit at a non-BeSmart certified clinic as a result of finding a quality Suboxone doctor online. You’re in withdrawal (or close to it) and are in dire need of Suboxone medication to avoid painful opioid withdrawals. You complete your appointment with your Suboxone doctor online, you visit with a therapist, and are ready to get started on Suboxone.
Your BeSMART-certified clinic promptly filed your TennCare insurance prior authorization at the beginning of your appointment and your Suboxone medication is already approved and ready for pickup at your local pharmacy. You start your Suboxone treatment that day and begin the wonderful, life-changing process known as addiction recovery.
In short, a BeSMART-certified clinic is the ONLY choice if you’re serious about your recovery and truly want to transform your life.
What’s the Lesson? Choose Your Suboxone Doctor Online Carefully
Only a BeSMART-certified Suboxone doctor online can provide the many benefits that make your opioid addiction recovery the best it can be. You’ll also have the confidence that both your clinic and your Suboxone doctor online are under higher scrutiny than non-BeSMART clinics in Tennessee.
Recovery Care clinics of Tennessee are BeSMART-certified. That means they deliver a higher level of care to their Suboxone patients, all under the strict scrutiny of the state of Tennessee and TennCare’s Amerigroup, BlueCare and United Healthcare health insurance programs.
As a result, Recovery Care accepts all TennCare Medicaid health insurance plans, helping provide a no-cost addiction treatment solution to those patients.
Since You’ve Found Your Suboxone Doctor Online, Why Not Get Started Today?
Recovery Care makes it easy to get started in a Suboxone maintenance program by providing online appointment signup and typically same-day appointments. Get started today by clicking one of the signup links below!
- I have TennCare health insurance
- I have commercial health insurance
- I don’t have health insurance (Self-Pay)