2024 Drug List

[sshafran]

I AM LIVID OVER THIS OVERSIGHT.

What's also sad here is how many Envision I sold and actually thought it was a pretty decent little drug company in Twinsburg, OH. Sold a bunch.

Then... No more selling... But we'll still pay you. Then... Just kidding and oh by the way, we're horrible now. Now, poof, we just don't care.

Rite Aide bought them, right? They messed it up for sure.

 

[somarco]

Our story begins with MedTrakRx in 1999, a PBM with a goal of offering better customer service than anyone in the industry. Two years later, a group of former pharmacists and healthcare executives created EnvisionRx as the antidote to the traditional PBM business model, establishing the first truly transparent PBM. The two PBMs came together in 2014 and then became a wholly owned subsidiary of Rite Aid Corporation—one of the nation’s leading drug store chains—in 2015.

[EXTERNAL LINK] - Our History

PBMs have come under a barrage of criticism from both outside and inside the industry, from the up-and-comers. Much of it revolves around pricing tactics such as spread pricing, whereby the PBM collects the difference between what it charges a payer for a prescription — including state Medicaid programs — and what it pays out to the pharmacy. The sheer size of the big three is an issue, as is vertical integration. For example, CVS Health operates an insurer (Aetna) and its well-known retail pharmacy chain, as well as CVS Caremark, the PBM subsidiary. Cigna Corp. owns Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, owns Optum Rx.
https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/beyond-the-big-three-pbms

 

[goillini52]

Our story begins with MedTrakRx in 1999, a PBM with a goal of offering better customer service than anyone in the industry. Two years later, a group of former pharmacists and healthcare executives created EnvisionRx as the antidote to the traditional PBM business model, establishing the first truly transparent PBM. The two PBMs came together in 2014 and then became a wholly owned subsidiary of Rite Aid Corporation—one of the nation’s leading drug store chains—in 2015.

[EXTERNAL LINK] - Our History

PBMs have come under a barrage of criticism from both outside and inside the industry, from the up-and-comers. Much of it revolves around pricing tactics such as spread pricing, whereby the PBM collects the difference between what it charges a payer for a prescription — including state Medicaid programs — and what it pays out to the pharmacy. The sheer size of the big three is an issue, as is vertical integration. For example, CVS Health operates an insurer (Aetna) and its well-known retail pharmacy chain, as well as CVS Caremark, the PBM subsidiary. Cigna Corp. owns Express Scripts, and UnitedHealth Group, the parent company of UnitedHealthcare, owns Optum Rx.
https://www.managedhealthcareexecutive.com/view/beyond-the-big-three-pbms

Damn. I couldn't read the whole thing. How do you keep it straight. Seems like too many middle men.....too many fingers in the pie.

 

[kgmom219]

Adding Duloxetine to the GoodRX/Pharmacy list.

And make sure you look at whoever own's Safeway in your area.

 

[Todd King]

And now, Rite-Aid is filing for BK!

 

[somarco]

And now, Rite-Aid is filing for BK!

Probably more coming as well as closing pharmacies (CVS) as well as others.

 

[kgmom219]

Rasagiline

Its all over the map. Make sure to look at multiple pharmacies

 

[kgmom219]

Adding Leqvio to the list.

Looks like a Part B drug to replace Repatha

 

[goillini52]

Adding Leqvio to the list.

Looks like a Part B drug to replace Repatha

My wife takes Repatha. It's Part D for her, as she self injects.

 

[goillini52]

Adding Leqvio to the list.

Looks like a Part B drug to replace Repatha

Looks like nobody covers Leqvio. Around $2,700 a month...ouch.