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Walgreens and Express Scripts have been in negotiations for the past year on their contract and have been unsuccessful. So as of Jan 1, 2012 Walgreens nationwide are no longer a part of Express Scripts.
This has caused pharmacy patients to find other pharmacies that are less convenient and sometimes farther away. Walgreens offers more 24 hour and drive-thru pharmacies than any other pharmacy in the country. Patients are not saving money and now its taking more time and money to get their prescriptions.
Express Scripts continues to make their money because as a middleman its profits have grown at a rate more than two times the average of peers in health care. The relationship is unbalanced when the middleman is making more money that the providers. Express Scripts wants patients to use their mail order pharmacy not the community pharmacy. Patients have been going to their local pharmacies for years, there is a relationship built within the community. I would rather go to the pharmacy that knows my family. Express Scripts are taking away the convenience and the community out of the pharmacies.
This also puts our Military Families in the middle because Tricare, the main Military health coverage, is one of Express Script's Clients. This means our Military families can no longer get their prescriptions filled at Walgreens. In many cases, Walgreens is the only pharmacy within a reasonable driving distance, are reasonably priced, or have the hours to accommodate the crazy military training schedules. Walgreens even offered to contract separately for Tricare but Express Scripts rejected that offer.
Walgreens unveiled a comprehensive national effort to make this transition as smooth as possible for patients. Walgreens is offering a special discount on annual membership for its Walgreens Prescription Savings Club. An individual can join in JANUARY for only $5 or $10 for family membership. Regular annual membership is $20 for individual and $35 for a family. Thank you Walgreens!
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