BF,

I am so sorry you had to go through that
I can understand your embarrassment. People in the medical field have made me feel embarrassed and ashamed in many ways in the past.
I wish you could get that apology

You can get a copy of your prescription and take it anywhere that accepts Medicare to get your glasses. I would not give that place my business.

That being said, the reason your script is more expensive is probably because it's for trifocals. Unless the doc wrote you a script for an alternative to the trifocals in case you decided you didn't want to switch to them, you would need to go back to get a script for something else.

As a side note, if you have never tried trifocals before, even if they are recommended, a lot of people won't use them because I guess they are very hard to adjust to.