How to Save Time and Money on Your Rx
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Pharmacy benefit offers convenient options
fter Michael Juday’s wife through ExpressScripts.com, phone was diagnosed in 2019 or mail or through the Express Scripts with Crohn’s, a disease mobile app. that causes inflammation Victoria Lee Jackson Carter, of the digestive tract, she had to Express Scripts senior clinical account go on medicine that typically costs executive at Duke, said that filling a $32,000 for an 84-day subscription. 90-day supply increases the likelihood But because of Duke’s medication is taken regularly by pharmacy benefit, the couple pays making refills more convenient. $130 every 84 days to reduce “The less likely you are to run out Tina’s abdominal pain, fatigue and of your medication, the better you are digestive issues. at adhering to your prescription and “It makes me feel great improving your health,” Carter said. knowing that Duke understands how important it is to give Go generic employees and their families With a low deductible and medications at a low price,” said reasonable co-pays, the pharmacy Juday, audio/video specialist for benefit keeps staff and faculty from Duke Health Technology Solutions shouldering most of the cost, and who orders his wife’s medicine selecting a generic prescription offers through a Duke pharmacy. savings. For example, Venlafaxine, a Duke partners with Express general antidepressant prescription, Scripts, a national pharmacy benefit costs $25 for 90 days compared to provider, for all four Duke medical $180 for a brand supply. plans. Express Scripts manages prescriptions for mail order and at Michael Juday with his wife, Tina. Photo courtesy of Michael Juday. Curbside convenience retail and participating Duke onsite pharmacies. You can pick-up prescriptions for In 2020, Duke covered nearly 68,500 employees and any medicine in-person or curbside from the Duke Outpatient dependents through the pharmacy benefit, filling about 1 million Pharmacy, Duke Children’s Retail Pharmacy, Duke Cancer prescriptions and paying $77.6 million of the $88.5 million for Center Specialty Pharmacy, Duke Regional Hospital, and Duke medications. Campus Center Pharmacy on West Campus. Here’s how the benefit can save you time and money. After a provider places an order, call the pharmacy to select curbside pick-up. Curbside parking is free, and prescription Special delivery payment is collected by phone. Gene Rhea, associate chief pharmacy officer for Duke Express Scripts offers mail-order for long-term maintenance Health, said curbside pick-up was started in April to reduce foot (90-day supplies) of medication for conditions such as diabetes, traffic inside buildings during the pandemic. high cholesterol and asthma. “It was a popular decision that we will keep going forward,” To get started, your doctor can electronically send new Rhea said. prescriptions to Express Scripts. Express Scripts Mail Order Pharmacy will then mail you the medicine. You can request mail order yourself by calling Express Scripts, and refills can be done
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By Jonathan Black
Get more details about the pharmacy benefit: hr.duke.edu/pharmacy
