UnitedHealthcare Pharmacy

Pharmacy Networks – Comprehensive

Nationwide access to care for your employees

With 63,000+ national and independent pharmacies, we offer one of the strongest retail pharmacy networks – including flexible pricing structures and options for members to get 90-day prescriptions at the retail pharmacy.

Plus, with our innovative pharmacy Savings Alerts, members can learn about lower-cost options right at the pharmacy counter.

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Mail Order

Are you concerned about escalating cost of delivering prescription drug benefits to your employees? Mail order may help you meet your financial objectives and safely provide your employees with the medications they need.

Savings

Mail order can drive down costs through:

• Deeper discounts off the average wholesale price for many medications
• No dispensing fees
• Improved brand to generic substitution rates
• Increased compliance

We can work with you to help balance member cost share and copayments. And, members can use our online tools to determine if mail order is the most cost effective option.

Quality

It is important for members to trust that they will receive the right medication at the right time. The mail order pharmacy dispenses medications at better than Six Sigma accuracy levels (99.9997 percent).

Automation allows pharmacists to focus on member safety and helps control your costs by:

• Encouraging compliance with the Prescription Drug List
• Achieving high conversion to generics and lower-cost alternatives

Convenience

Using mail order eliminates the need for members to travel to a retail pharmacy for medications they take on an ongoing basis. And since dispensing usually covers a three-month supply, fewer refills are required throughout the year.

Specialty Pharmacy Designated Network

We contract with carefully selected designated specialty pharmacy providers based on cost, clinical expertise, and clinical management and adherence programs.

Pharmacy Benefit

Our specialty pharmacy providers are experts in the area of specialty medications, and the conditions they treat. They provide members convenient, affordable access to important medications and comprehensive clinical services that improve the member's adherence and overall satisfaction with their treatment. Carefully managing each of these factors helps avoid unnecessary medical costs and can reduce the total cost of health care for our members.

Medical Benefit

Specialty medications for members using their medical benefit may be obtained through one of four channels – at home infusion providers and outpatient facilities, in a physician's office, or through our specialty pharmacy network.

Our contracted rates and pricing methods allow us to control costs for you – and provide members timely access to therapy in a clinically appropriate and convenient setting.