CVS Health to Offer Free Home Delivery of Prescription Medicines in Response to Covid-19

By Maria Armental

CVS Health Corp. won't charge for home delivery of prescription medications as part of a series of measures to help customers during the coronavirus epidemic, the company said Monday.

"The latest steps we're taking will help ensure patients of all ages have every option available to them when it comes to filling prescriptions," Dr. Troyen Brennan, CVS Health's executive vice president and chief medical officer, said in a statement.

In addition to offering free home delivery of prescription medicines effective immediately, the Rhode Island-based company said Aetna, a CVS Health company, will offer 90-day maintenance medication prescriptions for insured and Medicare members and is working with state governments to make the same option available to Medicaid members where allowable.

Self-funded plan sponsors will have the ability to offer that option, the company said.

Aetna will waive early refill limits on 30-day prescription maintenance medications for all members with pharmacy benefits administered through CVS Caremark.

Caremark, the company said, is working with clients to waive early refill limits on 30-day prescription maintenance medications.

Most Caremark clients already offer a 90-day benefit for maintenance medications and the option of home delivery from CVS Caremark Mail Service Pharmacy with no delivery cost.

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March 09, 2020 14:33 ET (18:33 GMT)

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