"The pilot will be a valuable program, providing Tricare beneficiaries with better access to pharmacist care and freedom to choose where to
fill their prescriptions," NACDS and NCPA wrote in the letter.
Researchers also noted that about 30 percent of patients who just received a stent fail to
fill their prescriptions within three days of hospital discharge.
High-income patients were almost three times more likely to
fill their prescriptions.
The agreement will once again allow customers of Express Scripts
fill their prescriptions at Walgreens pharmacy stores, according to the Chicago Tribune.
In December The New York Times reported that "hundreds of patients complain daily to the Food and Drug Administration that they are unable to find a pharmacy with enough pills to
fill their prescriptions."
3/4 A Americans don't always take medication as directed, and one in three people never even
fill their prescriptions.
"Many Express Scripts patients may be concerned that they will not have a pharmacy to
fill their prescriptions at the start of the new year," Shop 'n Save pharmacy district manager Chris Basler said when the plan to accept Express Scripts-covered prescriptions at its stores in Greater St.
-- Modest reductions in medication copayments can encourage patients with diabetes to
fill their prescriptions and use their drugs, according to researchers at the University of Michigan.
To support veterans and their families during major emergencies, especially natural disasters, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has begun to deploy mobile pharmacies that will provide vital medicine when patients are unable to
fill their prescriptions. VA will also open the facilities to help communities during major disasters and other emergencies.
When faced with increases, 37% of chronically ill consumers missed doses, split pills or did not
fill their prescriptions altogether.
NEW YORK -- The convenience of a supermarket's location is, by far, the biggest factor in convincing pharmacy patients to select their food store to
fill their prescriptions.
An estimated one in six patients who leave the hospital after receiving a drug-coated stent implant do not
fill their prescriptions for a blood thinner medication--a decision that doubles their risk of a subsequent heart attack or death compared with those patients who get their prescriptions filled immediately, according to a study published in the April 20 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, a journal of the American Heart Association.
The project focused on selected patients discharged from Health Sciences North who
fill their prescriptions at one of the five participating SDM locations in greater Sudbury.
As a result, Express Scripts will no longer be the plan's PBM, and employees will once again be able to
fill their prescriptions at Walgreens beginning July 1.
-- Maintaining the right of military families and veterans to choose where they
fill their prescriptions through the TRICARE program has been a primary goal of the National Association of Chain Drug Stores and the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).
