Walgreens launches employer-centric health program

DEERFIELD, Ill. Walgreens announced that it is launching an employer centric pharmacy, health and wellness program designed to reduce health care and prescription costs for employers across the country.

The program, called Complete Care and Well-Being, is a new and unique approach to health care that brings together pharmacy, health and wellness services under a single program, with all prices transparent to the employer. It represents a fundamental change to the delivery of health care services for employers, their employees, dependents and retirees.

The program is offered through Take Care Health Systems, a Walgreens subsidiary that is the largest provider of worksite health and wellness centers and in-store convenient care clinics in the country. Complete Care and Well-Being combines worksite health centers, in-store clinics and pharmacies with a discount prescription drug offering that is available nationally to a company’s employees, dependents and retirees no matter where they work or live. In addition, beneficiaries under the plan receive a 15 percent savings on all Walgreens brand store products.

“Over the past two years, we built and assembled the services necessary to offer a unique solution to rising pharmacy and health care costs,” said Walgreens president Greg Wasson. “Unlike most health care reform options, Walgreens Complete Care and Well-Being program will address both controlling costs and improving access to quality care. It also delivers on the promise of reform in a way that sets us apart from other solutions and provides value for employers and payers of all types.”