CHICAGO (Reuters) - CVS Caremark Corp said on Monday it is offering discounts of about 30 percent on fertility treatments to couples struggling with infertility and high medication costs.
The program is aimed at patients who do not have fertility medication health insurance coverage or who have exhausted their benefits for fertility medications.
CVS said about 7.3 million U.S. women and their partners, or about 12 percent of the reproductive-age population, are affected by infertility, citing data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"On average patients will receive about 30 percent off for the cost of their medication," said Joan O'Rourke, vice president of strategic operations at CVS Caremark Specialty Pharmacy.
Patients must pay a $10 fee to enroll in the program, which includes services such as counseling and education.
While the program was launched in February, CVS is promoting it at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine's annual meeting this week.
Under a separate plan launched on Sunday, shoppers can get 90-day prescriptions for more than 400 common generic medications for $9.99 each at CVS drugstores when they pay an annual fee of $10.
About 45.7 million Americans were uninsured in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Wow, that is really great. I am scheduled to have a consultation with a reproductive endocrinologist, and no meds will be covered. So hopefully, I can get some at the lower rates through CVS. Thanks for posting this!
This is so exciting! I currently get my Clomid from CVS and pay $4.00 per pill. I spend $20 a month because, thankfully, I'm on 50mg.
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This is so exciting! I currently get my Clomid from CVS and pay $4.00 per pill. I spend $20 a month because, thankfully, I'm on 50mg.
Just a heads up that Wal-mart already has Clomid on their discount prescriptions list. At the 50 mg dose, its $9 and for the 100 mg dose its $18.
I wonder which ones CVS will cover, we are also about to move from an OB/GYNO to an RE, so I'm hoping that we move away from Clomid (3 cycles & no O) to something else.
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I'm so new to all this that it confuses me but thankfully I just saw on Wal Mart's pharmacy website that Clomid and Metformin are on their reduced rate list.
CVS offers lower-cost fertility medications 
