2011 marks our eighth year of helping employers, trusts and other organizations achieve higher value pharmacy benefit plans. Our members and partners can be proud of what we have been able to accomplish by working together.

"Promoting Medication Adherence" was the theme of the 2010 Annual Meeting held in Madison, WI.  Here you will find presentations by our expert speakers with startling statistics about adherence, information about what works to change behavior and what the future holds regarding the use of technology to promote adherence. 

On the Road to Value-Based Benefit Design was the topic of the National CooperativeRx/HCCMCA Annual Client Meeting in Anchorage Alaska last week.  John Miall, one of the innovators behind the Asheville Project, Jeff Schulte of Axia Strategies and Eric Samaniego of Alere provided valuable information to attendees about creating healthier employees and understanding value based benefit design.

On March 23, 2010, the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) into law, which will have both long- and short-term impacts for all group health plans. WisconsinRx/National CooperativeRx has information about certain provisions that may affect members’ pharmaceutical benefits plan starting with their next plan year.

Our PBM partner, CVS Caremark, has also posted information about PPACA compliance on their Client Care Access Portal. You can link to the portal from here. 

National CooperativeRx’s contract with CVS Caremark provides vital benefits and services to our participating groups and members. Through our partnership, National CooperativeRx and CVS Caremark provide the expertise you’re looking for and the best-in-class service you and your members require. For the WisconsinRx version, click here.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes a list of documents that plan sponsors must provide to plan participants.  One newly added document is a Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC).  To help your plan adhere to providing an SBC, we have attached a PDF from CVS Caremark.  Many plans will be required to supply an SBC as soon as September 2012.