NNEBT

PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFITS

Your Health Plan includes a prescription drug benefit. The prescription drug benefit program includes a card system, currently administered through Teamsters Rx for retail purchases, and a mail order system, administered by Teamsters Rx Pharmacy.

Benefit

Retail Purchases

Generic Drugs: $ 5.00 co-payment per prescription
Brand Name Drugs (no generic substitution available): $10.00 co-payment per prescription
Brand Name Drugs (generic substitution available): $10.00 plus difference between cost of drugs

For retail purchase there is a dispensing limitation of the lesser of a 30-day supply or 90 units.

Mail Order Purchases

Teamsters Rx Pharmacy will dispense up to a 90-day supply of a drug, subject to the prescription written by your physician. Teamsters Rx Pharmacy will dispense a brand name drug only if no generic drug equivalent is available. No copayment is required for mail order purchases Click here to read policy.

Mail Order Procedure

1. Have your physician write a prescription for up to a 90-day supply with refills;
2. Complete the Teamsters Rx Pharmacy order envelope (download here).

If your physician has authorized a refill, simply complete the Teamsters Rx Pharmacy order envelope (download form by clicking here), enclose the co-payment and mail the envelope to the Teamsters Rx Pharmacy. In placing a mail order, you should allow 10 business days for your prescription to be delivered by the US Postal Service. Some medication will require a signature and will be sent UPS, signature required. Such medication will not be delivered to a P.O. Box. If no one will be home to sign for the delivery, you should supply another address (work, relative etc.) so that a signature may be obtained.

A Teamsters Rx pharmacist is available by telephone to answer any questions concerning your medication and to discuss with you the proper use of your medications. The toll free phone number is 1-866-888-0104.

Limitations And Exclusions

Legend contraceptives, oral or injectable, are covered through mail order only. Depro-Provera contraceptives may be dispensed up to a 90-day supply through mail order only. Note: In instances of therapeutic equivalency, you may be required to obtain approval from NNEBT prior to filling a prescription.

The following drugs are not covered as part of your prescription drug benefit:

1. Therapeutic devices or appliances, even if medically necessary
2. Smoking cessation program drugs
3. Hair loss or experimental drugs
4. Drugs used to treat substance abuse
5. Retin-A for individuals age 26 or over
6. Medication taken or given while you are in a hospital, skilled nursing or other approved facility
7. Biological sera
8. Prescriptions for hyperalimentation
9. Refills beyond the prescribed limit
10. Refills more than one year from the original prescription order date
11. Refills prior to finishing 75% of the projected dosage
12. Drugs used to treat infertility
13. Certain weight loss medications
14. Drugs subject to the “General Plan Exclusions”

Revised: October 2005