This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

After the unsuccessful negotiations with Express Scripts, Walgreens is offering a special discount on annual membership for its Walgreens Prescription Savings Club . For $10 a year, a family membership covers everyone in your immediate family, including a spouse, dependents 22 and younger and pets. Individuals may join for $5. Join and receive discount prices on your prescriptions. 

You will save on more than 8,000 brand-name and all generic medications and also discounts on flu shots, pet prescriptions, nebulizers and diabetic supplies. You will also receive bonuses when you purchase Walgreens brand products and photofinishing services.

For those who are not familiar with the Walgreens and Express Script here are some interesting details  http://bit.ly/y6RTpL. You will also receive more information if you follow Walgreens on Twitter and Walgreens on Facebook.

Basically Walgreens is no longer part of Express Scripts’ pharmacy provider network as of Jan. 1, 2012. This includes all Walgreens pharmacies nationwide and Duane Reade pharmacies in the New York City area.

This situation of forcing pharmacy patients to go elsewhere to use their in-network pharmacy benefits was unnecessary. Express Scripts’ actions are causing disruption with no significant benefit to patients or their health plan.

Special note!

 

 

One of Express Scripts’ clients is Tricare, which is the health and prescription drug program for America’s military service men and women. During negotiations, Walgreens took the unprecedented step of offering Express Scripts an ironclad guarantee that Walgreens prices would match or beat the average costs per adjusted prescription of all other pharmacies in the Tricare network.  Walgreens did this in an effort to prevent our country’s military personnel from being caught in the middle. Walgreens also offered to contract separately with Express Scripts for Tricare from other Express Scripts commercial business, but these offers were rejected. Express Scripts continues to refuse to negotiate a separate contract for the benefit of the Tricare program and its beneficiaries.