Walgreens returns to WEA Trust pharmacy network

A notice from the WEA Trust:

We are pleased to announce that Walgreens will once again be a participating pharmacy for our prescription drug needs beginning April 1, 2008.

You may recall that Walgreens made the decision to drop out of our pharmacy network last fall saying that they were not being reimbursed sufficiently by CVS Caremark, our drug plan administrator, for filling prescriptions on behalf of Trust health plan members.

Walgreens has since apologized to the Trust for its actions and has shown a renewed desire to work with us. We gave serious thought to their offer to return before accepting. On one hand, their original decision inconvenienced thousands of our members, including many of us here at the Trust, and forced members to go out of their way to locate a new pharmacy for their health needs. On the other hand, we realize that for many of our members Walgreens is a convenient pharmacy in their area.

We have always believed that it is our responsibility to ensure that our health plan members have access to convenient provider networks, including pharmacies, but at a reasonable cost. Therefore, we worked with CVS Caremark to bring Walgreens back to the pharmacy network as of April 1, 2008.

Posted April 3, 2008