Updates to the Wellmark Drug List

Beginning July 1, 2012, several changes will be made to the Wellmark Drug List. The following brand-name medication is moving to the highest Tier on the Wellmark Drug List. There is a generic equivalent available; no new script is required for current users of Lipitor to move to the generic equivalent. Simply ask your pharmacist for the generic version. 

 

Highest Tier based on benefit design

  • Lipitor (artovastatin)*

The following medication is moving to Tier 3 of the Wellmark Drug List. There are generic alternative contraceptive methods, such as oral medications, that are available in generic and with a lower cost share that provide the same efficacy.  To move to a generic alternative, a new prescription will be required.   

  • NuvaRing (vaginal insert)

 

 

 
 
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