Welcome to Unite for Safe Meds

Organizing Supporters to Create Change for Improved Pharmaceutical Care.

Our goal is to ensure that the face-to-face relationships with our trusted pharmacists are always covered through our insurance coverage and to ensure that these relationships are not forcefully removed by dangerous mandatory mail order plans.

Laws must change to protect patients’ options and ensure they will always have the CHOICE of getting their medications the safest way and without risking of patient lives through delays, thefts, miscommunication, lack of temperature monitoring, and many other issues that can compromise patient outcomes.

MANDATORY MAIL-ORDER IS CAUSING MILLIONS OF PATIENTS TO RISK THEIR LIVES

The issue comes from the insurance companies’ pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs). There is an 80% chance that your PBM is Express Scripts, CVS, or Optum Rx because they have formed an oligopoly. The issue is the insurance company's PBMs are moving 100% of the coverage for many patients to have a face-to-face interaction with their pharmacist and forcing many patients to ONLY be able to get the medications that their lives depend on through their PBM-owned, risky mail-order pharmacy. Mail order pharmacy is not being forced because it is the best option for most patients - it is being forced because it is the best option for corporate profits.

#1 This is hurting not only patients as they now have no face-to-face interaction with a pharmacist who knows them and their chronic needs, but also hurting our independent pharmacies by not offering a level playing field. Many are closing at a rapid rate across our country leaving many areas UNDER-SERVED. I agree mail-order pharmacy can be an option but should never be forced.

#2. Mail order brings issues with delays, thefts, and most room temperature medications (59-86 degrees), like my son's transplant meds that he must have every 12 hours to survive, arrive in only a plastic bag, far outside of the temperature ranges proven safe by the manufacturer. They usually only use cooler and ice packs for refrigerated medications. With the current laws across our nation, these mail order pharmacies are so loosely regulated they can ship medications in a bag in any temperature conditions, for an unlimited amount of time.