Comments on: Bye-bye, drugstores! Will mail-order prescriptions become mandatory for employer-based health plans?

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:12:08 +0000

The sad part is people think they are saving money through mail order but the reality is someone is still paying for it. Mail order services rip off employers that front the bill. They repackage their own NDC and mark it way up ex: 1000% then say… hey we will give you half off drugs… well how about you just charge us the fair market price and everyone from the employer to the patients will pay less!! Look at PBM’s stock prices! Look at their yearly returns and how much money they are making!! Its sad how badly PBM’s are ripping customers off. Want to lower the health care for America? Get people’s greedy hands out of the cookie jar and help America.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:52:34 +0000

Blue Shield has required me to have 2 PBM’s.Or pay $5.00 more to pick up at the pharmacy. I call in Multiple Medicines different days of the month. If they send two. it is of no advantage, and like the article said, “where is the freedom of choice” I am retired, and can not afford $10.00 more a month for greed. so I did a foolish thing, I quit taking the meds..I (we) have a awful habit of wanting to eat..

By: RYan

RYan — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:46:57 +0000

If anyone who is a so called “fan” of mail order calls a local pharmacy and asks for advice or information about a medication because EXP SCRPTS put you on hold for an hour or wants a hand out because UPS lost the medication that keeps you from having a heart attack I hope the pharmacist dismisses you and that you are forced to deal with the not so pretty side of your “cheaper” pharmacy.

These PBMs are the largest middle-man scam that the nation has ever seen and nobody realizes it

exp scps is not a necessary entity at all. They blackmail the drug co. with promises of giving their medication preferred status, blackmail the Ins co. with promises of increased revenue, blackmail the employer with promises of decreased cost, and they blackmail the beneficiary with promises of excellent service.

If they did not exist at all then everyone would be better off on the whole.

By: brian

brian — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:35:02 +0000

Surely you realize the hypocrisy in Nease’s statement!!!
If the 90-day option is so great, how come EXPRXS PROHIBITS its memberpharmacies from offering it??

Jesus, you’re so close to the issue; but, as a selfproclaimed fan of mail-order mills, you’re still missing it.

Frustrating….

By: Myrtle

Myrtle — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:16:51 +0000

My insurance company will save less than $10 on a drug that costs about $1600 per month. It must be refrigerated and I’m not home. No problem, they say, we’ll mail it TO YOUR WORK! How is this allowed under HIPPA?

By: Wal-Mart takes on PBMs: this is getting GOOD | The eDrugSearch Blog

Wal-Mart takes on PBMs: this is getting GOOD | The eDrugSearch Blog — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:53:45 +0000

[...] companies and their PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) may soon attempt to force employees toward mail-order drugs. It’s certainly a real possibility after the PBM Express Scripts began offering mail-order [...]