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Pharmacy Networks

Using Your Pharmacies

When you have prescription and pharmacy benefits through Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, there are multiple ways to get your prescriptions. It starts with your pharmacy network that includes nationwide drugstores, grocery store chains and locally-owned drugstores. Prices you pay for drugs at network pharmacies will be less than those at other pharmacies.

 

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Two Ways to Search

Find a Pharmacy

We use Prime Therapeutics as our pharmacy benefit manager. If your plan includes prescription drug coverage through Prime, search in your member account for a personalized list of in-network pharmacies.

Prefer searching as a guest? To get accurate results, you may need key info before searching as a guest on Prime's member website, MyPrime.com.

Log In for Personalized Search

Looking for a pharmacy? If you have a BCBSIL health plan with Prime, log in to your member account to find in-network pharmacies.

With personalized search, you'll get:

  • Easy searches and the most accurate results
  • List of in-network pharmacies near you with contact information
  • Filtering options: 90-day supply pharmacies, drugstores open 24 hours, locations offering vaccines and more
Log In to Search

Don't have a member account? Register now.    
Want to use our mobile app instead? Learn more.

Search As a Guest*

You can find a pharmacy without logging into your member account by searching on MyPrime.com. But you'll need some details about your benefits or plan first.

Medicare Plans
You'll need to know your Medicare Advantage or MedicareRx plan name before you search as a guest.
Search as Guest

Medicaid Plans (Blue Cross Community Health PlansSM)
You don't need details about your plan to search as a guest.
Search as Guest

Medicare-Medicaid Plan (Blue Cross Community MMAISM)
You don't need details about your plan to search as a guest.
Search as Guest

All Other BCBSIL Plans
For all other BCBSIL plans, you'll need to know your pharmacy network before you search on MyPrime.com.
Search as Guest

Your Pharmacy Benefits

Ways to Access Your Prescriptions

If you have prescription and pharmacy benefits with BCBSIL, you have multiple ways to get the medications you need. There are different types of pharmacies in your network. They include national retail chains, local neighborhood drugstores, and independent and specialty pharmacies. You can even have some medications shipped to your home for free.

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Retail Pharmacies

Retail pharmacies are often national chain pharmacies. They may be in stand-alone buildings or part of a grocery store. They can include regional and local pharmacies too.

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Home Delivery

You can choose to have some types of medications mailed to your home like maintenance drugs that treat longer-term conditions and specialty drugs that treat serious or chronic conditions.

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Specialty Pharmacies

Specialty medicines treat certain complex, chronic conditions. They may have special handling or storage needs that retail pharmacies can't manage easily.

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Vaccine Pharmacies

Vaccines can help protect you from the flu, COVID and more. You can get many vaccines at a pharmacy near you. Members can search for vaccine pharmacies in their pharmacy network.

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Preferred Pharmacy Network

Did you know that if your BCBSIL plan has a Preferred Pharmacy Network, you can save money when you use a contracted preferred pharmacy? In fact, you may pay as little as $0. 

By using a preferred pharmacy, you may pay the lowest copay or coinsurance amount. Need a 90-day supply of a non-specialty covered drug? Just visit any preferred retail pharmacy in the Preferred Pharmacy Network.

You may know these pharmacies in the Preferred Pharmacy Network: Jewel-Osco, Walgreens and Walmart.

Log in to your member account, click on the Pharmacy tab and search for an in-network pharmacy near you.

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* Prime Therapeutics, LLC (Prime), is a separate company that provides pharmacy solutions for BCBSIL Medicaid plans (Blue Cross Community Health Plans and Blue Cross Community MMAI). Blue Cross Community Health Plans is provided by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, a Division of Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (HCSC), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Blue Cross Community MMAI (Medicare-Medicaid Plan) is provided by Health Care Service Corporation, a Mutual Legal Reserve Company (HCSC), an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. HCSC is a health plan that contracts with both Medicare and Illinois Medicaid to provide benefits of both programs to enrollees. Enrollment in HCSC's plan depends on contract renewal.

Prime Therapeutics LLC is a separate company contracted by BCBSIL to provide pharmacy solutions.

MyPrime.com is a pharmacy benefit website offered by Prime.

When you leave the bcbsil.com website to search as a guest on MyPrime.com, you enter another secured site. This site may include information about prescription drugs, medical conditions and treatments other than those covered in your specific health care benefits plan.