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Since 1984, APCI has been the ‘united voice of independent pharmacy’

APCI began as a small buying group for a limited number of independent pharmacies in central Alabama. Since that time, the cooperative has grown to more than 1,800 members pharmacies in 26 states, and provides its members with a wide range of products and services.

Our mission is to represent the economic and professional interests of independent pharmacies by providing leadership, vision, and a collective voice for our members in the healthcare marketplace. Our goal is to level the playing field for our member pharmacies by providing innovative, targeted programs to benefit our entire membership.

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Dec

2015

Prime Therapeutics: PrimeWest Health Transtions to new PBM

Effective: January 1, 2016

Dear Valued Provider, Effective January 1, 2016, PrimeWest Health will transition their Medicaid and Medicare Part D products from Prime Therapeutics to MedImpact. Participating Pharmacies will no longer be able to submit claims to Prime Therapeutics for Medicaid or Medicare Part D Covered Persons for dates of service after 12/31/15 for the following BIN and PCN combinations:

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Dec

2015

PerformRx: MACRA Communication

Effective: January 1, 2016

11/13/2015 Dear Pharmacy Network Provider, Beginning January 1, 2016 all claims submitted to PerformRx must be submitted with a valid Prescriber National Prescriber Identifier (NPI) number. This is a result of MACRA Legislation which was passed April 16, 2015. Currently PerformRx accepts claims submitted with only a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) identifier for select customers. Beginning January 1, 2016, claims submitted with only a DEA number and identifier will deny at point-of-sale and reject with error 434 (Valid Prescriber Type 1 NPI Required), requiring the pharmacy to submit a valid Prescriber NPI number and qualifier.

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Dec

2015

PerformRx: ICD-10

Effective: October 1, 2015

Dear Pharmacy Network Provider,

Are you ready for ICD-10?

Beginning October 1, 2015 all supported PerformRx lines of business will only be accepting ICD 10.

What is ICD-10? According to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) the health care industry to comply with the new code set. These codes are utilized to code all diagnosis and hospital inpatient procedures for administrative transactions. The current ICD 9 only allows 14,400 different codes while ICD-10 will encompass over 16,000 diagnosis codes.

16

Dec

2015

CVS/caremark: New Implementation for Road Builders and Pavers

Effective: January 1, 2016

Effective January 1, 2016, CVS/caremark will begin to administer the prescription benefits for Road Builders and Pavers. Please update or create plan member profiles to reflect the changes regarding the following new plan adjudicating through CVS/caremark. RXBIN: 004336 RXPCN: ADV RXGRP: RX0164 Member ID Format: 9 digits Person Code : 2 digits

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