When should I use a local retail pharmacy instead of the Caremark Mail Service Program?
If your benefit plan includes both the Caremark Retail Pharmacy Program and the Caremark Mail Service Program, you should use the local retail pharmacy for your immediate medication needs and for short-term drugs. Use your mail service program for your long-term, maintenance medications. For maintenance medications, ask your doctor for two prescriptions when you need to take your medication right away: one for a short-term supply of up to 30 days and one for up to a 90-day supply with three refills, when clinically appropriate. Fill the short-term supply immediately at a local Caremark participating retail pharmacy and send the 90-day supply prescription to Caremark to be filled via the mail service pharmacy program.
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