Amazon Pharmacy has landed one other Blue Cross and Blue Protect buyer, Florida Blue introduced Tuesday.
Florida Blue will rely solely on Amazon Pharmacy to ship medicines to its greater than 2 million industrial and self-insured prospects subsequent yr.
Seven different Blues plans have inked comparable, unique residence supply contracts with Amazon Pharmacy: Blue Cross and Blue Protect of Alabama, Blue Cross and Blue Protect of Minnesota, Blue Cross Blue and Protect of Nebraska, Blue Cross and Blue Protect North Carolina, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Protect of New Jersey, and Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon, in response to coverage paperwork printed by the insurers.
Florida Blue, a nonprofit insurer with practically 6 million members, didn’t reply to an interview request. Amazon declined to touch upon what number of sufferers it serves via its prescription drug supply service.
“This enlargement of our work with the Blue plans helps our objective of constructing entry to prescription medicines so simple as another buy: saving prospects time, giving them extra management over their purchases and serving to them keep wholesome,” an Amazon spokesperson wrote in an e mail.
The assorted Blues plans have additionally partnered with Amazon and its pharmacy profit supervisor to combine a drug low cost coupon into members’ advantages. Not like competing drug low cost playing cards, the quantity sufferers pay via MedsYourWay applies towards their deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums.
This month, Centene’s Wellcare introduced that Amazon will likely be a most popular pharmacy for its 1.5 million Medicare Benefit members subsequent yr.