UnitedHealthcare’s New My ScriptRewards Enables People to Share Cost Savings on Select Medications
October 29 2018 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
- Innovative cost-savings program
awards plan participants up to $500 in prepaid debit cards for
other medical expenses
- Select antivirals used to treat HIV
will be the first medications included in My ScriptRewards
UnitedHealthcare, a UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) company, is
introducing My ScriptRewards, a new program that shares
prescription cost savings directly with plan participants who
choose doctor-approved, guideline-recommended and cost-effective
medications.
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My ScriptRewards offers UnitedHealthcare plan participants the
opportunity to realize additional cost savings and earn up to $500
in prepaid debit cards to use toward medical expenses, including
other prescriptions and doctor’s office copays, when they do the
following:
- consult their doctor to choose the
lower-cost regimen that is right for them;
- fill an eligible prescription at their
pharmacy for $0 out-of-pocket;
- activate My ScriptRewards online
(www.myscriptrewards.com) or over the phone;
- receive the first $250 prepaid debit
card via U.S. mail within one month; and
- continue using the eligible medication
for six months to receive the second $250 prepaid debit card.
“My ScriptRewards helps make prescription drugs more affordable
and promotes access to clinically effective medications so that
people can achieve their best health,” said Richard Migliori, M.D.,
chief medical officer of UnitedHealth Group. “We are educating
people on lower-cost medications that may be right for them,
encouraging them to talk to their doctor and ultimately helping
them engage in decisions about their health care.”
Select antivirals used to treat HIV will be the first
medications included in My ScriptRewards due to the challenges that
come with managing a high-cost medical condition. According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the lifetime cost
of treating HIV is estimated at nearly $380,000.
There are several HIV treatment regimens recommended by the
Department of Health and Human Services, yet the cost among them
can vary significantly. Through My ScriptRewards, plan participants
can receive certain guideline-recommended HIV medications with
proven effectiveness for no cost at the time of purchase. The most
cost-effective treatment regimens available through
UnitedHealthcare for $0 out of pocket include:*
- Cimduo® + Tivicay® (two-pill
regimen)
- Cimduo + Isentress®/Isentress HD®
(three-pill regimen)
My ScriptRewards is now available to people enrolled in
UnitedHealthcare fully insured employer-based benefit plans, and
will be available to self-insured customers in November 2018.
UnitedHealthcare plans to expand My ScriptRewards to include other
high-cost specialty drug categories in the future.
Providing access to guideline-recommended medications at a lower
cost is another way UnitedHealthcare is helping people get the full
value from their pharmacy benefits. My ScriptRewards is part of
UnitedHealthcare’s broader effort to simplify pharmacy benefits,
deliver savings directly to consumers and improve the health care
experience.
*Triumeq® and other guideline-recommended HIV treatments remain
available with a cost share.
About
UnitedHealthcareUnitedHealthcare is dedicated to helping
people live healthier lives and making the health system work
better for everyone by simplifying the health care experience,
meeting consumer health and wellness needs, and sustaining trusted
relationships with care providers. In the United States,
UnitedHealthcare offers the full spectrum of health benefit
programs for individuals, employers, and Medicare and Medicaid
beneficiaries, and contracts directly with more than 1.2 million
physicians and care professionals, and 6,500 hospitals and other
care facilities nationwide. The company also provides health
benefits and delivers care to people through owned and operated
health care facilities in South America. UnitedHealthcare is one of
the businesses of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH), a diversified
health care company. For more information, visit UnitedHealthcare
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