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Flexible Choice

Pharmacy

Prescription medicine coverage is part of your Flexible Choice Plan. Where you choose to have your prescriptions filled will determine how much you pay for your medicines. You have three pharmacy options: Kaiser Permanente Pharmacies (Option 1), MedImpact Network-Community Pharmacies (Option 2), or Out-of-Network Pharmacies (Option 3). You can choose any pharmacy option regardless of your Flexible Choice provider option.

For HSA-Qualified plans, prescription drugs are subject to medical deductible in all three options.

Kaiser Permanente Pharmacies

Prescriptions through Kaiser Permanente pharmacies.

You can fill prescriptions (written by any provider) at pharmacies located in Kaiser Permanente medical centers. You will always pay the lowest out-of-pocket costs at these pharmacies. Choose how to fill your prescriptions:

  • At Kaiser Permanente medical centers. All 30+ medical centers across the region have pharmacies. Permanente doctors can send most prescriptions electronically to the pharmacy—or you can present your prescription with your membership ID.
  • Online. Register at kp.org/register to order most refills online and have the medicine mailed to you or pick it up at a medical center pharmacy.
  • Through EZ Refill phone line. Call us at 800-700-1479 (TTY 711), 24 hours a day, and have the medicine mailed to you or available for pick up at any medical center pharmacy.*

To choose the Kaiser Permanente pharmacy where you’d like to pick up your prescription, visit kp.org/facilities.

 

 

* A program operated or arranged by Health Plan that distributes prescription drugs to Members via mail. Some medications are not eligible for the Mail Service Delivery Program. These may include, but are not limited to, drugs that are time or temperature sensitive, drugs that cannot legally be sent by U.S. mail, and drugs that require professional administration or observation. The Mail Service Delivery Program can mail to addresses in MD, VA, D.C., and certain locations outside the service area.

MedImpact Network-Community Pharmacy

Prescriptions through participating retail pharmacies.

  • Kaiser Permanente Insurance Company contracts with MedImpact to fill your outpatient prescription drugs at retail pharmacies across the country.
  • You can use any of the over 70,000 retail pharmacies nationwide in the MedImpact participating pharmacy network.

You can fill prescriptions at any participating MedImpact pharmacy. Here’s a partial list:


  • Costco
  • Rite Aid
  • CVS
  • Safeway
  • Farm Fresh
  • Shoppers Food Warehouse
  • Giant

  • Target
  • Harris Teeter
  • Walgreens
  • Kmart
  • Walmart


Not all locations in a chain participate, some are independently contracted. To check on a specific pharmacy or for more information, call MedImpact Customer Service at 800-788-2949 at any time or check the MedImpact Pharmacy Locator Tool.

Out-of-Network Pharmacy

Fill your prescription at any pharmacy.

  • You can fill prescriptions at any pharmacy.
  • You will pay full out-of-pocket costs for prescriptions filled at out-of-network pharmacies and then submit a Pharmacy Claim Form for reimbursement.

For HSA-Qualified plans, prescription drugs are subject to medical deductible in all three options.

How to save money on prescriptions.

  • You can fill prescriptions you get from Option 2 and 3 physicians at Kaiser Permanente medical center pharmacies, where you’ll usually pay the lowest copay.
  • Just bring your prescription and your member ID to the medical center. To find medical centers, go to kp.org/facilities.
  • If you are registered at kp.org, you’ll be able to order refills online or by phone and have them delivered, with no cost for postage (applies to most drugs.)
  • If you present a prescription for a drug that is not on the Kaiser Permanente formulary, the Kaiser Permanente pharmacist will likely check with the prescribing physician to determine if a therapeutic equivalent from the Kaiser Permanente formulary can be substituted.
  • Information will become part of your Kaiser Permanente medical record, for better coordinated care.

Finding out what drugs are covered.

  • To find out if your prescription medications are on the Plan drug formulary you can visit kp.org/formulary for a list of approved drugs.