From CORE member Linda Meinelt re: STRS Rx...... Save your postage

From Linda Meinelt, April 22, 2010
Subject: Save your postage

If you have a physical and receive renewals for your prescriptions, don't mail them in until you're ready to fill.

I sent mine in so they would be on hand when I needed them, and said, "hold and I will call when ready to fill." They returned all to me and said send in when you're ready to fill.

I called STRS and they concurred this is the policy of Express Scripts. I also told them that I was able to get one of my prescriptions for considerably less at Costco, and the response was that probably I could get a lot of them for less or free locally.

I also asked if we had gone together with OPERS to get prescriptions and was told yes, we negotiated together; however, our prescription plans are not the same. I tried to determine why we couldn't have the same plan if we negotiated together but got no answer except we are two different systems and that OPERS is a larger system than STRS.