Pharmacy choice and mail order: tips to lower Part D costs
The Senior Moments demonstration shows how pharmacy selection (retail vs. mail order) and plan tiers affect monthly costs. Using local pharmacies in the Medicare.gov tool helps identify which plan yields the lowest total cost for a beneficiary's prescriptions.
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Laurel Jolliffe used a sample drug list and local pharmacies to illustrate how pharmacy choice affects plan cost. In the WellCare Value Script example she compared per‑pharmacy totals for the remainder of the year and showed that for the sample drugs CVS produced the lowest per‑month figure for the example list while Eliquis remained the high‑cost medication across plan options.
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