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This post brought to you by Walgreens. All opinions are 100% mine.

For the last year, Walgreen’s has been negotiating a new contract with Espress Scripts, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX), the pharmacy benefit manager for Tricare, an insurance provider for America’s military families. Those negotiations were unsuccessful, and the contract expired on Dec. 31. As a result, Walgreens is no longer part of Express Scripts’ pharmacy provider network as of Jan. 1, 2012. This includes all Walgreens pharmacies nationwide and Duane Reade pharmacies in the New York City area. You can read more about the situation here: Walgreens and Express Scripts

Those people who are covered by Tricare have found that their prescription costs have not gone down as a result of this contract expiring–and some have even found their prices to be more. Added to that, they have to drive further to find a participating pharmacy. Express Scripts itself has stated that their patients will not see any significant savings from excluding Walgreen’s from their network.

Express Scripts could offer substantial savings to its clients by promoting 90-day refills at retail pharmacies, but it conflicts with its own mail order 90-day prescription business that it profits from.

Walgreen’s wants to support and protect the troops, but since they are being excluded from Express Scripts contract, they are no longer able to fulfill prescriptions for military families. Many patients under an Express Scripts plan have used Walgreens pharmacies for years. In an effort to minimize their disruption and inconvenience, Walgreens unveiled a comprehensive national effort to make this transition as smooth as possible and is doing all it can to help patients continue to use Walgreens when possible, or take care of them as they are forced to leave Walgreens in order to use their in-network coverage.

Only patients with certain prescription insurance plans managed by Express Scripts will be affected by this. Check with your local Walgreens pharmacist to find out for sure if you’re impacted. You can check the back of your prescription insurance card – if it says Express Scripts, then you may be affected. If it doesn’t say Express Scripts, then they are not affected.

To minimize the disruption Walgreen’s is offering a special discount on annual membership for its Prescription Savings Club at Walgreens. An individual can join during a special January promotion for only $5, or $10 for a family membership, and receive savings on more than 8,000 brand name and all generic medications. More than 400 generics are available with a three-month supply for less than $1 a week. Regular annual membership is $20 for an individual and $35 for a family.

For more information check Walgreens on Twitter or Walgreens on Facebook

This post brought to you by Cafe Well. All opinions are 100% mine.

Cafe Well is a social network that offers corporate wellness programs that  WORK. It was created to provide a safe, secure and anonymous health care destination that connects you with other people who share your health care interests and needs. Café Well is the only destination that exists for one reason “health.” The community is there to address your needs, from chronic condition support like Celiac Disease, Diabetes or Arthritis to healthy lifestyle tips and challenges. CaféWell understands how hard the health care system is to navigate and makes it easy to get the health information you need, when and where you want it. That is why Cafe Well is available to everyone.

To get started you can…

• * Explore and join discussion groups to share experiences and get support
• * Connect with other community members with common health interests
• * Invite family and friends to join your own personal health network

On your Home page you can easily manage your activity and stay up to date on the latest news. You can start a private group for your friends and family to stay connected and work together on challenges, or join any of the existing groups for support and information.

 Race to the Moon is a corporate challenge , available only toforgot eligible Health of America members, that aims to get members more fit and active by walking or running through offering free wireless pedometers which tracks their steps and rewards them for milestones and total steps. This program actually works and gets their members more active!   Race to the Moon works to get people moving and keep them moving,  In just under a month, the program has participants who have walked over 50 MILLION steps, and average 2.5 million steps a day.

The company I worked for last summer had something similar to this–they provided every employee who wanted one a pedometer to wear. Each person was encouraged to keep a written record of the steps they took each day, and the ones with the most steps each week were rewarded in some small way. The Race To The Moon Challenge takes that idea a step further by using wireless pedometers to automatically record your steps. I think that is a great idea!

If I could create a challenge of my own, I would probably make it very easy and simple to follow, so that people could be successful and continue to get healthy as time goes on. Maybe I could make mine a “Eat Less for Success” weight loss program. What would your challenge be?