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Medicare–approved Prescription Drug coverage is included in your Medicare Blue PPO plan.
When you choose Medicare Blue PPO, you'll not only get reliable benefits for a variety of hospital and medical services, you'll also receive Medicare–approved prescription drug coverage. These benefits can offer you significant savings both on generic and preferred brand name medications. With Medicare Blue PPO, you don't need a separate drug plan or a separate ID card to obtain Medicare–approved prescription drug coverage.
AN IMPORTANT WORD ABOUT MEDICARE–APPROVED PRESCRIPTION DRUG COVERAGE:
When you have Medicare–approved prescription drug coverage, you are receiving your drug benefits from Medicare through a plan that has contracted with the federal government. Medicare–approved prescription drug coverage is not offered on an automatic basis. You must join a Medicare Advantage or Medicare Prescription plan like Medicare Blue PPO.
What is the Medicare Blue PPO formulary?
A formulary is a list of drugs, selected for the Medicare Blue PPO plan by a team of health providers, that represents the prescription therapies believed to be a necessary part of a quality treatment program. Medicare Blue PPO will cover the drugs listed in our formulary as long as the drug is medically necessary, the prescription is filled at a Medicare Blue PPO network pharmacy, and other plan rules are followed. For complete details on how to fill your prescriptions, please refer to the Evidence of Coverage.
Can the formulary change?
Yes, Medicare Blue PPO may add or remove drugs from our formulary during the year. The PPO Formulary 
is current as of January 2010. To get the most updated information about the drugs covered by Medicare Blue PPO, call our pharmacy Product Specialist at 1–866–303–2583, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m., Central time, 7 days a week. For the hearing or speech impaired please call 1–800–722–0353. If we remove drugs from our formulary, or add prior authorization, quantity limits and/or step therapy restrictions on a drug or move a drug to a higher cost–sharing tier, we must notify members (who take the drug) that it will be removed at least 60 days before the date that the change becomes effective, or at the time the member requests a refill of the drug, at which time the member will receive a 60–day supply of the drug. If the Food and Drug Administration deems a drug on our formulary to be unsafe or the drug's manufacturer removes the drug from the market, we will immediately remove the drug from our formulary and provide notice to members who take the drug.
Contact a Medicare Blue PPO Pharmacy Product Specialists at 1–866–303–2583, 8 a.m. – 8 p.m., Central time, 7 days a week. For hearing or speech impaired please call 1–800–722–0353.
Medicare Blue PPO resources:
- Best Available Evidence Policy
- Comprehensive Formulary
- Pharmacy Locator*
- Rx Formulary Search*
- Formulary Drugs Requiring Prior Authorization/Approval
Other Prescription Resources:
Go to Walgreens Medicare Mail Service Information* and click the "Setup Your Account" link in the Easy Account Setup box and complete and submit the information. Your registration with the Tempe pharmacy will be active within 48 hours.
Save more when you order by mail or when you fill your prescription as the counter of any of these network pharmacies†:
- CVS
- Homeland
- Kmart
- Pyramid
- Sam's Club
- Sav–On
- Target
- Wal–Mart
- Walgreens
Other pharmacies are available in our network.
† Per Geo Access analysis conducted in May 2009. Currently there are approximately 890 preferred pharmacies in the network of Oklahoma.
Our network includes pharmacy availability that equals or exceeds Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) requirements for pharmacy access in your area. More than 59,700 pharmacies participate in our network.†
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