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Mail-service
Pharmacy
95 percent of employers offer access to mail-service pharmacies that
dispense maintenance medications used to treat chronic conditions.
Only 11.1 percent of employers require maintenance medications be
dispensed by a mail-service pharmacy, a circumstance commonly referred
to as "mandatory mail". Employers with mandatory mail have
27.3 percent of all prescriptions dispensed by mail, a level more
than twice that (12.0 percent) seen by employers with voluntary mail.
Just 26.8 percent of employers use retail pharmacies to dispense 60-or-more-days
supplies of medication. The dispensing of maintenance medications
by retail pharmacies is relatively new and subsequent surveys will
track this.
Nearly 60 percent of employers using retail pharmacies to dispense
maintenance supplies are not restricting that responsibility to select
pharmacies. |
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