2012 is Here!

Happy New Year Everyone!

2012 is going to be a big one! There are a lot of things coming down the pike affecting pharmacy patients across the state and country:

• January is traditionally a mess with insurances. Everyone’s plans change and the computers can’t keep it straight. To make it worse, nationally the communication system is being upgraded to a new standard. That means our pharmacy staff will need lots of wine to prevent us from dreaming about insurances until February 15th or so.
• We’ll see the dissolution of mandatory mail order, thanks to you. Our Anti-Mandatory Mail Order legislation passed and goes into affect for 2012. Starting this year, insurances will be prohibited from forcing anyone to use mail order.
• The NYS EPIC changes go into affect. If you are 65 or older and make less than 50k/year married or 35k/year single, PLEASE SIGN UP. It’s free!
• Many big brands are going generic, saving everyone major bucks!

At our store, many great improvements are coming:

• New register systems to make the check out system smoother. We’ll have a rewards program started in Saugerties that will work with both stores. Exciting stuff.
• Monthly lectures for 10-20 people on different topics. We’ll have diabetes education, heart healthy tips, nutrition, and vitamin lectures among much more. These will be hosted weekly and topics will change monthly
• Rx Sync – make one trip to the drug store for all your medicines, on a day YOU choose. Never run out of refills before your next doctor’s appointment!
• More Shingles clinics to increase access to these important vaccines!

You’ll see more on Facebook and our blog as well.

A few things we’re working on that get us really excited:

• an app for “scanning” your rx’s and sending them for refills
• coupons for the stuff you need
• a generic savings program: you switch from a brand to a generic drug and we’ll buy you 1 month free!

Again, Happy New Year to all. We could not do it without you!