Drug Discount Cards

CMS selects Medco for Medicare discount drug card program

Published in Pharma Law Weekly, April 20th, 2004

In an important first step to offering Medicare beneficiaries affordable prescription drug coverage, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that Medco Health Solutions (MHS) has been selected as one of the Medicare-approved sponsors to offer prescription drug discount cards to the more than 41 million Medicare beneficiaries nationwide.

"For too long, too many Americans have been required to essentially pay `full retail price' for their prescriptions, severely limiting access to the quality healthcare they deserve," said David Snow, chairman, president and CEO, Medco. "We intend to leverage our size and scale for the Medicare population, just...

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