Wal-Mart, Target to offer $10 prescription drug programs
Case Management Weekly, May 14, 2008
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Case Management Weekly!
Last week, Wal-Mart announced the third phase of its low-cost prescription drug program saying that it would offer 90-day supplies of more than 350 generic medications for $10.
The company began a $4 prescription program for 30-day medication supplies in 2006. Almost all of the medicines under the $4 plan will now be included in the new $10 plan. Wal-Mart said it will also reduce the price of more than 1,000 over-the-counter medicines.
In response, Target announced that it would launch a $10 prescription drug program as well. The company also followed suit with Wal-Mart’s $4 prescription program in 2006.
Wal-Mart is the top retailer in the United States, while Target ranks fourth. Both stores are hoping that shoppers will find and buy other items in their stores while stopping in to fill their prescriptions.
Sources: The New York Times, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
Want to receive articles like this one in your inbox? Subscribe to Case Management Weekly!
Comments
0 comments on “Wal-Mart, Target to offer $10 prescription drug programs ”
Related Products
-
Case Management Weekly
Case Management Weekly is a free e-mail newsletter that offers news, resources, and Q&As to help case managers from all...
-
Case Management Monthly
This newsletter offers case studies, best practices, and how-to analysis to help case managers move patients through the...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Q&A: Acute respiratory failure diagnosis does not require intubation
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- HIPAA Q&A: TPO disclosures to a business associate
- What does case-mix index mean to you?
- Capturing all necessary codes for IUD insertion and removal can be challenging
- Topic: CMS, OESS post new security compliance review information, checklist
- Identify potential Medicaid RAC target areas
- Q/A: Coding infusions to correct low potassium levels
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- E-mailed
-
- HIPAA Q&A: Level of encryption needed for email
- Q&A: Acute respiratory failure diagnosis does not require intubation
- Featured blog post: Nurses face felony charges after reporting physician to the Texas Medical Board
- Q/A: Coding infusions to correct low potassium levels
- CMS has reformulated payments for some bilateral procedures
- Oxygen Cylinder Storage Requirements
- Q&A: Follow CMS' coding guidelines when using modifier -25
- Hospitals are not bound by InterQual criteria for determining patient status
- Q/A: New code for image-guided minimally invasive lumbar decompression
- Understand the spine to code back procedures correctly
- Searched