Fw: Important news about Walgreens and your drug plan!

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Important news about Walgreens and your drug plan!Though I have already posted

info on the Walgreens/Aetna issue, thought I would post this, as there is some

additional information about a meeting for families with children with complex

medical needs.

Ellen

Ellen Garber Bronfeld

egskb@...

Important news about Walgreens and your drug plan!

Important news about Walgreens and your drug plan!

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Family Support Network Members and Friends

Happy Thanksgiving...

News you need to know!

Important news about Walgreens and your drug plan!

If you are a participant in the Integrated Care Program,

(ICP) and your provider is Aetna Better Health, you need to know about a change

in your drugstore network!

Effective 1/1/2012, Walgreens will no longer be in

Aetna’s network. Parents, Guardians or Individual you will need to select a

new drugstore. You should have received a letter in the mail from Express

Script, the company that manages your prescription-drug plan. Please don’t

discard this letter, read it and follow the instructions provided. Included in

the letter is a list of pharmacies that are located close to your current

pharmacy; or you can find more choices at www.express-scripts.com. Click on

" Walgreens Pharmacy Customers. "

Do you take a daily medicine?

If you take medicine on an ongoing basis, you can choose

home delivery from the Express Scripts Pharmacy. You can get up to a 90-day

supply of medicine. Shipping is free.

How can you make the switch now, so that there is no

delay in receiving your medicines?

Please use one of the 4 options listed below:

Locate a new drugstore. Ask them to call Walgreens.

Take your medicine bottle to your new drugstore. Ask

them to call Walgreens.

Ask your doctor to call your new drugstore. Or,

Go to www.StartHomeDelivery.com. Sign up for home

delivery

If you have questions, please contact Express Scripts at

1-866-212-2851 or the number on your ID card! Please note this information only

pertain to you if you use Aetna Better Health as your provider and currently

utilize Walgreens as your drugstore.

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A note from Health and Family Services

HFS Children with Complex Medical Needs workgroup

meeting- December 14th- Chicago and Springfield

Families interested in attending should contact Family

to Family at 866-931-1110 regarding the availability of limited parent stipends!

A stakeholder work group, including physicians and

other providers who specialize in serving children with severe disabilities, as

well as advocates, will be formed to review and make recommendations with

respect to the issues identified. The department will assist the stakeholder

work group in review of federal requirements, further research of how states

assess, plan and implement service plans, and other options that Illinois may

consider. The intent of this group is to contribute to a full review of options

and recognition of the needs of the children being served through the waiver and

other similar programs.

http://hfs.illinois.gov/ccmn/schedule.html

2011 Meeting Date Time

Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Location Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family

Services

Chicago

401 South Clinton

7th Floor

Video conference Room Springfield

Bloom Building

201 South Grand Avenue, East

3rd Floor

Division of Medical Programs, Video conference

Room

Additional information regarding this work group from

the HFS website:

http://hfs.illinois.gov/ccmn/

Excerpt from the Medicaid Reform Law Public Act 96-1501

Signed January 25, 2011.

(305 ILCS 5/5-29 new) Sec. 5-29. Income Limits and

Parental Responsibility. In light of the unprecedented fiscal crisis confronting

the state, it is the intent of the General Assembly to explore whether the

income limits, and income counting methods, established for children under the

Covering ALL KIDS Health Insurance Act, pursuant to this amendatory Act of the

96th General Assembly, should apply to medical assistance programs available to

children, made eligible under the Illinois Public Aid Code, including through

home and community-based services waiver programs, authorized under Section

1915© of the Social Security Act, where parental income is currently not

considered in determining a child's eligibility for medical assistance.

The Department of Healthcare and Family Services is

hereby directed, with the participation of the Department of Human Services and

stakeholders, to conduct an analysis of these programs to determine parental

cost-sharing opportunities, how these opportunities may impact the children

currently in the programs, waivers and on the waiting list, and any other

factors which may increase efficiencies and decrease state costs.

The department is further directed to review how

services, under these programs and waivers, may be provided by the use of a

combination of skilled, unskilled, and uncompensated care, and to advise as to

what revisions to the Nurse Practice Act, and Acts regulating other relevant

professions, are necessary to accomplish this combination of care.The department

shall submit a written analysis on the children's programs and waivers, as part

of the department's annual Medicaid reports, due to the General Assembly in 2011

and 2012.

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Sincerely,

Shirley

Shirley A.

Executive Director

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South Holland, IL 60473

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