Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Enhanced Formulary

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hi I'm Matt Hosford chief pharmacy officer for Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield so drug formulary is simply a list of medications that are covered under your under your health plan the purpose of having a formulary is to insure it we have access to multiple medications to treat a wide variety of health conditions while at the same time helping to control the overall cost of providing healthcare for the most part all drugs are covered under your formulary if you have a medication that is not covered there may be a number of reasons why that's true it may require that we need additional information from your physician in order to ensure that the medication is being used appropriately if may be that it simply moved to a different tier and we are asking that some alternative medications that are low cost to you are tried first these medications are used in the same way we expect them to do the same thing to treat whatever you're taking the medication for so the Walmart drug list is crea