Nearly a third of the independent pharmacies that were dropped from the Tricare retail pharmacy network in October have opted to rejoin the network, according to officials from Express Scripts, which manages the prescription plan.
In October, 14,963 independent pharmacies — out of a total of 55,586 retail pharmacies in the network — dropped out of Tricare, mostly because of what they perceived as low reimbursement rates. But a number of community drug stores never even received the proposed 2023 contract, which Express Scripts sent by fax earlier in 2022, according to the National Community Pharmacists Association.
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