Manage Your Plan
Save Money on Your Prescription Drug Costs
Community CCRxSM works with you and your pharmacist to save you money in several ways.
1. Generic Medicines
Generic medicines are effective at keeping you healthy and saving you money.
Generics are required by the Food and Drug Administration to have the same ingredients, strength and dosage form and work the same way as brand-name medicines, yet they may cost as much as 80 percent less than brand-name medicines.1
Community CCRx’s plans offer generics at low or no co-pays.
2. Programs To Keep You On Your Drug Regimen
Prescription medicines are therapeutic but only when taken properly.
We review our patients’ pharmacy claims to determine if they are taking their medicines often enough to treat their conditions. We provide that information to our patients’ pharmacists, who can help our patients get back on track if necessary.
Sometimes it is better to take additional medicines. For example, for our patients with diabetes, we recommend additional medicines to prevent heart and kidney diseases. We contact our patients’ doctors and educate our patients’ pharmacists to make sure they prescribe and dispense these life-enhancing medicines.
3. Welcome Medication Reviews — Free to You
All members new to our plan in 2008 are entitled to a free, face-to-face Welcome Medication Review.
At no cost to you, a network pharmacist of your choice will take an in-depth look at the medicines you’re taking and compare them against our formulary.
The pharmacist will recommend ways to save money, such as switching to generics or lower-cost medicines.
The pharmacist can also answer questions about how Community CCRx plans work.
We pay your pharmacist for this service, but it is FREE to you.
4. Community MTM (Medication Therapy Management) — Free to You
Patients taking multiple medicines for several chronic conditions may be eligible to participate in an additional face-to-face session with their pharmacist.
These face-to-face sessions help patients understand their medicine regimens, manage their chronic conditions and point out any possible drug interactions.
As a result of these sessions, patients will receive a comprehensive list of their medicine regimens to give to other healthcare providers or to the hospital in case of an emergency.
We pay your pharmacist for this service as well, but it is FREE to you.
1Source: Generic Pharmaceutical AssociationTM (GPhA) Web site, www.1.gphaonline.org, 2006.