UHC Pharmacy Benefits

As you are aware, UHC proactively manages our pharmacy benefit. As part of this management, UHC has benefit updates taking effect on July 1, 2011. Please see attached for detailed information of up tiering, down tiering and new exclusions, etc. These updates represent a small percentage of all prescriptions – no medications in the top 50. Among these updates are some medications that will be excluded from benefit coverage. A majority of these medication exclusions have minimal use so few employees will be impacted. UHC realizes any impact may be difficult, so they only make the decision to exclude based on clinical evidence and when equally effective alternatives are available.