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My Health, My Pharmacy, My Choice!
My pharmacy has helped me manage my medications for years, but they were not allowed to be part of the preferred network for my Medicare prescription drug plan! Why??
Medicare D was created to give seniors many choices from which to choose a prescription drug plan and all of the plans are required to provide a broad network of pharmacies so that seniors will have access to a pharmacy nearby. However, many plans have developed what they call "preferred networks." These preferred networks are a smaller sub-group of the larger network that will allow seniors to have their prescriptions filled at a lower cost. The problem with these preferred networks is that the plan chooses which pharmacies may or may not be a part of the network.
If your pharmacy is not part of the preferred network for your plan, meaning you have to pay a higher co-pay to have them fill your prescriptions, it is likely NOT because your pharmacy refused to participate in the lower cost network. It is most likely because your plan REFUSED to allow your pharmacy into the preferred network.
Prescription drug plans should not be allowed to determine who may or may not participate in a program that is funded by YOUR tax dollars! Participation should be open to any pharmacy willing to accept the terms of the plan.
If you agree, please click on "Take Action" and send letters to Congress telling them to make preferred networks for Medicare prescription drug plans open to any pharmacy willing to accept the terms of the network!
Fight4Rx is a non-partisan grassroots effort of the National Community Pharmacists Association aimed at educating patients about the value of their local community pharmacy.
Pharmacists play a role every day in the lives of patients by improving health care while reducing costs. With health care issues taking center stage in Washington, DC, it is vital that patients remain engaged in protecting their access to safe and affordable medicine. Fight4Rx provides you with the tools you need to learn about the changing health care market, and how your community pharmacy plays a key role.
The J.D. Power and Associates 2010 National Pharmacy Study found that independent community pharmacies consistently garnered among the highest customer satisfaction scores, surpassing national, publicly traded pharmacy chains and the most common, volume-driven mail order pharmacies.
Pharmacy benefit managers, or PBMs, act as an intermediary between the payer and everyone else in the healthcare system. They generally make money through service fees from large customer contracts for processing prescription claims, operating mail order pharmacies, and negotiating prices with drug makers. Go to whorunsmydrugplan.com to learn more.
The letter below could serve as a sample for your own letter to your health plan.|
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