Express Scripts and Walgreens Offer New Solution to Improve Patient Health
August 01 2013 - 3:01PM
Business Wire
Express Scripts (NASDAQ:ESRX) and Walgreens (NYSE:WAG)
(NASDAQ:WAG) today announced the launch of Smart90® Walgreens, a
new option for Express Scripts clients interested in 90-day
prescription drug programs that drive lower costs and improve
health outcomes for people with chronic diseases who require
long-term treatment.
Under the new option, plan sponsors that choose to include
Walgreens as part of the Smart90 program for their pharmacy benefit
will provide their members who have chronic conditions such as high
cholesterol, high blood pressure and diabetes, the choice to
receive 90-day supplies of maintenance medications through home
delivery from Express Scripts or directly at a Walgreens retail
pharmacy for the same copayment. Pending adoption by benefit plan
sponsors, plan members could access Smart90 Walgreens as early as
January 2014.
“Working together with Express Scripts, Smart90 Walgreens will
offer more pharmacy locations and better member access coverage
than any single retail chain 90-day maintenance medication solution
in the nation,” said Kermit Crawford, President of Walgreens
Pharmacy, Health and Wellness. “Through Smart90 Walgreens, our more
than 8,000 Walgreens retail pharmacies will provide plan sponsors
with cost savings and will offer their members safe, easy and
convenient access to important in-person pharmacist consultations
and a wide-range of health and wellness services that can further
improve medication adherence and lower overall healthcare
costs.”
“Members will be able to continue to receive the safety,
convenience, cost savings and care offered from Express Scripts
home delivery pharmacies,” said Glen Stettin, M.D., senior vice
president of research and new solutions at Express Scripts. “Our
data are clear: 90-day prescriptions delivered to a member’s home
improve medication adherence and health outcomes, lower the cost of
care and add convenience when compared to 30-day prescriptions.
Over the past few years, our Smart90 program has driven more 90-day
prescriptions for participating clients, and we’re pleased to now
offer this additional option.”
Express Scripts works with its clients -- employers, health
plans, unions and government health programs that provide pharmacy
benefits to American families -- to ensure plan members receive
prescription drugs in the safest, most cost-effective way possible.
For eligible plan sponsors who adopt a Smart90 solution, patients
on maintenance medications can get a 90-day supply of prescription
drugs from the Express Scripts home delivery pharmacy or
exclusively through certain, participating retail pharmacies.
With Smart90 Walgreens, when members choose home delivery from
Express Scripts or pickup at a Walgreens retail pharmacy, overall
savings increase due to more aggressively discounted pricing on
90-day prescriptions. In addition, adherence increases because a
patient’s opportunity to forget to refill a prescription --
identified by Express Scripts as a major factor in nonadherence --
is far fewer, just four times per year vs. 12.
About Express Scripts:
Express Scripts manages more than a billion prescriptions each
year for tens of millions of patients. On behalf of our clients –
employers, health plans, unions and government health programs – we
make the use of prescription drugs safer and more affordable.
Express Scripts uniquely combines three capabilities – behavioral
sciences, clinical specialization and actionable data – to create
Health Decision Science℠, our innovative approach to help
individuals make the best drug choices, pharmacy choices and health
choices. Better decisions mean healthier outcomes.
Headquartered in St. Louis, Express Scripts provides integrated
pharmacy benefit management services, including network-pharmacy
claims processing, home delivery, specialty benefit management,
benefit-design consultation, drug-utilization review, formulary
management, and medical and drug data analysis services. The
company also distributes a full range of biopharmaceutical products
and provides extensive cost-management and patient-care
services
For more information, visit http://lab.express-scripts.com/ or
follow @ExpressScripts on Twitter.
About Walgreens:
As the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2012 sales
of $72 billion, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) vision is to become
America’s first choice for health and daily living. Each day,
Walgreens provides more than 6 million customers the most
convenient, multichannel access to consumer goods and services and
trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness services and
advice in communities across America. Walgreens scope of pharmacy
services includes retail, specialty, infusion, medical facility and
mail service, along with respiratory services. These services
improve health outcomes and lower costs for payers including
employers, managed care organizations, health systems, pharmacy
benefit managers and the public sector. The company operates 8,098
drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto
Rico. Take Care Health Systems is a Walgreens subsidiary that is
the largest and most comprehensive manager of worksite health and
wellness centers and in-store convenient care clinics, with more
than 700 locations throughout the country.
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