CVS Health to Offer Free Home Delivery of Prescription Medicines in Response to Covid-19
March 09 2020 - 1:48PM
Dow Jones News
By Maria Armental
CVS Health Corp. won't charge for home delivery of prescription
medications as part of a series of measures to help customers
during the coronavirus epidemic, the company said Monday.
"The latest steps we're taking will help ensure patients of all
ages have every option available to them when it comes to filling
prescriptions," Dr. Troyen Brennan, CVS Health's executive vice
president and chief medical officer, said in a statement.
In addition to offering free home delivery of prescription
medicines effective immediately, the Rhode Island-based company
said Aetna, a CVS Health company, will offer 90-day maintenance
medication prescriptions for insured and Medicare members and is
working with state governments to make the same option available to
Medicaid members where allowable.
Self-funded plan sponsors will have the ability to offer that
option, the company said.
Aetna will waive early refill limits on 30-day prescription
maintenance medications for all members with pharmacy benefits
administered through CVS Caremark.
Caremark, the company said, is working with clients to waive
early refill limits on 30-day prescription maintenance
medications.
Most Caremark clients already offer a 90-day benefit for
maintenance medications and the option of home delivery from CVS
Caremark Mail Service Pharmacy with no delivery cost.
Write to Maria Armental at maria.armental@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 09, 2020 14:33 ET (18:33 GMT)
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