CVS/Caremark, a prescription benefit insurance, will no longer cover more than two dozen medicines. Customers will still be able to buy the drugs in CVS pharmacies.
CVS will replace the dropped drugs with cheaper versions. People taking Viagra made by Pfizer can use a similar erectile dysfunction drug, Cialis, made by Eli Lilly.
The list of dropped medicines has expanded since 2012 from 34 to 124 in 2016.
Express Scripts, a rival prescription drug insurance, has banned 90 drugs from its coverage.
Action 9's Jason Stoogenke will bring you more details about this coverage change on Eyewitness News at 5:30 p.m.
Drugs that CVS will drop from its coverage in 2016:
- Abilify (antipsychotic)
- Amitiza (irritable bowel disease)
- Avonex (multiple sclerosis)
- Bydureon (diabetes)
- Carac (dermatology)
- Cardizem, including Cardizem CD, Cardizem LA and its generic (high blood pressure)
- Clobetasol spray (dermatology)
- Clobex spray (dermatology)
- Cymbalta (depression)
- Diovan (high blood pressure)
- Exforge, including Exforge HCT (high blood pressure)
- Extavia (multiple sclerosis)
- Fluorouracil cream 0.5% (dermatology)
- Fortesta (testosterone replacement)
- Fosrenol (kidney disease)
- Incruse Ellipta (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Intuniv (ADHD)
- Invokameet (diabetes)
- Invokana (diabetes)
- Matzim LA (high blood pressure)
- Monovisc (monovisc)
- Noritate (dermatology)
- Plegridy (multiple sclerosis)
- Qsymia (anti-obesity)
- Relistor (gastrointestinal)
- Valcyte (anti-infective)
- Viagra (erectile dysfunction)
- Zubsolv (opioid dependence)
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Jason Stoogenke WSOC TV Reporter will bring you more details on Eyewitness News at 5:30: CVS/Caremark will drop more...
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