Medicare Prescription Drug Plans

Pharmacy Information

Learn about the pharmacies we contract with and how to find them.

Pharmacist showing mature woman where to find her medication

Blue Cross MedicareRx (PDP) has contracts with pharmacies nationwide that equal or exceed the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requirements for pharmacy access. To receive benefits, you must use network pharmacies or our home delivery pharmacy service, except in emergencies.

Search the Pharmacy Finder tool to find the most up-to-date network of pharmacies.

Preferred Network Pharmacies

The Blue Cross MedicareRx (PDP) pharmacy network has both preferred and standard pharmacies to choose from when you fill your prescription drugs. You may choose either type, but you will usually save money by paying a lower copay or coinsurance when you use a preferred pharmacy. Preferred network pharmacies include Jewel-Osco, Mariano’s, Walgreens, Walmart, and other independent pharmacies. Some select plans1 include only Jewel-Osco and Walgreens as preferred pharmacies. Check your plan's pharmacy directory  for a full list of preferred pharmacies. 

1Select Blue Cross MedicareRx plans: Blue Cross MedicareRx Basic (PDP); Blue Cross MedicareRx Choice (PDP)

Home Delivery

In addition to in-network pharmacies, you can use one of our home delivery pharmacies and have your medications delivered straight to your home. Our home delivery pharmacies offer:

  • Three ways to order refills: online, by phone or through the mail 
  • Up to a 90-day supply of medications at one time
  • Choice of notification by text message, email or phone when your order is received and when your prescriptions are mailed
  • Free standard shipping any place in the U.S. and automatic refills 

To get started, please call one of our home delivery pharmacies:   

2Walgreens Mail Service, a central specialty and home delivery pharmacy, is contracted to provide mail pharmacy services to members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. 

3Express Scripts® Pharmacy is a pharmacy that is contracted to provide mail pharmacy services to members of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois. Express Scripts® Pharmacy is a trademark of Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

4Amazon Pharmacy is contracted to provide pharmacy home delivery services to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois.

5 Prime Therapeutics LLC is a pharmacy benefit management company, contracted by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) to provide pharmacy benefit management services. BCBSIL, as well as several independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans, has an ownership interest in Prime Therapeutics.

Out-of-Network Pharmacies

Covered drugs are available at out-of-network pharmacies in emergencies or unusual circumstances and for non-routine access to covered Part D drugs (for example, illness while traveling outside the plan’s service area where there is no network pharmacy). For more information on these special circumstances for out-of-network coverage and/or what pharmacies may be available to you, please contact us.