Preferred Pharmacy Network Updates

If you’ve purchased your metallic plan on your own, have a metallic plan through your employer or have a non-grandfathered health plan through your employer, your BCBSIL prescription drug benefit plan may have a Preferred Pharmacy Network. You can find your Preferred Pharmacy Network locations on MyPrime.com – logged in or not*.

Preferred Pharmacy Network
If your prescription drug benefit plan has a Preferred Pharmacy Network, the preferred pharmacies in your network are:

• Walgreens
• Walmart (including Sam’s Club)
• Albertsons LLC (including Jewel Osco Pharmacy)
• Health Mart Atlas (a group of independent pharmacies)

This means when you go to a preferred pharmacy to fill a prescription, you’ll pay less out-of-pocket:

**You can also go to a retail pharmacy in the preferred pharmacy network to fill up to a 90-day supply. Members with an HMO plan can use select pharmacies in their network to get up to a 90-day supply of a covered prescription.

Finding Network Preferred Pharmacies Locations
An up-to-date address list of your Preferred Pharmacy Network is ready for you when you need to go someplace close. Prime Therapeutics, your pharmacy benefit manager (PBM), offers the online resource myprime.com. MyPrime.com is available 24/7 on any mobile device. 

Logged into MyPrime.com?
After signing into MyPrime.com , your pharmacy network will automatically appear.

You’ll follow the same steps shown below after choosing the “Pharmacies” link in the top navigation menu to find a preferred pharmacy.

Not logged into MyPrime.com?

1. Visit MyPrime.com and select Health Plan Type “Other BCBSIL Plans,” then select Continue.
2. On the Find a Pharmacy page, select "Preferred Network."
3. On the Pharmacy Search Results page, enter your city, state, zip code or address to search for pharmacies in your Network. Since all in-network retail pharmacies will be listed, you can filter by “Preferred pharmacies ” to find specific locations in your Preferred Pharmacy Network .

Leave us a comment so we can Connect about prescription drug benefit or MyPrime.com questions!

*Preferred Pharmacy Network pricing isn’t available for 100% cost-sharing or HMO plans. These 100% cost-sharing plans don’t have a tiered structure for member out-of-pocket copay/coinsurance for prescription drugs.

Originally published April 1, 2016