For its services, Express Scripts rakes off a small percentage of the value of each prescriptionfilled, plus, in many cases, a piece of the discounts it negotiates from drug manufacturers.
Both initiatives had their first full month of impact in October which resulted in a sharp improvement in the prescription count filled at Walgreen stores, improving from a 10.3% y-o-y decline in September to 1.8% decline in October.
The pharmacy manager explained to me that neither gemfibrozil nor Vicodin was actually dispensed by human pharmacists but by a robot, and she speculated that the robot must have filled my prescription (with gemfibrozil) and then gone on to the next prescription (Vicodin), somehow putting both kinds of pills into the same vial.
The proportions of warfarin prescriptions filled were slightly increased to 68 percent in women as well as men when prescription rates were assessed within 1 year after discharge.