Walgreens Claims Theranos Voided 11.3% of Test Reports

Wall Street Journal ^ | Nov. 15, 2016 10:25 p.m. ET | By Christopher Weaver

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Theranos Inc. allegedly voided 11.3% of all blood-test reports that the Silicon Valley laboratory firm provided to customers of Walgreens stores through a yearslong partnership between the two companies, according to legal papers the drugstore chain filed Tuesday.

Theranos, whose main lab failed an inspection by U.S. regulators earlier this year, told Walgreens in June that it subsequently voided 31,000 test reports provided to the chain’s customers, Walgreens said in the public version of a sealed lawsuit.

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Never trusted it when ObamaCare opted to work hand-in-hand with Walgreens and try to lessen Walmart's participation. They tried to set up a minor monopoly and the veils are starting to ravel - even though Walgreens is the complainant.

Walmart is my favorite for when I "go downtown" vs. using the base pharmacy.

[GailA]

Since we are Retired Military, hubby is 77, We are Medicare/Tricare Life, Tricare Life does NOT accept Walgreen’s.

You use Military base pharmacy or Express Scripts, DOD MANDATE 2014, made permanent in 2015, except for an emergency 1 time fill or a 1 time drug. Usually from a Minor Med or ER after hours. ES is known for FRAUD.

All our blood work is doctor done. Never heard of a drug store doing any thing but flu shots.

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Yep - I am Tricare Prime (will go Tricare for Life next November) and my wife is Tricare for Life now. Spent 24 years in AF - God Bless you and your husband for your service.

[GailA]

Thank you for your service too.

Go base script fills and make the doc give you paper scripts, avoid Express Scripts if at all possible. Our refills come out of Pensacola. Takes 5 days if there is no holiday involved. ES is a month for a fill, 2 weeks for refills. And they charge, where the base doesn’t. Only bad thing is Base is not set up for Handicapped seniors. Walk in Active Duty, Exchange parking lot lacks Handicapped parking. We are a small base for the fact it’s BUPERS and all Naval records are kept there. We gained a ton of Brass, and lost the training part, which meant the hospital and medical closed down too.

I have 1 script filled at a regular private pharmacy and Tricare pays for it as neither base nor ES can guarantee the right drug. It’s just a double layered water pill, generic, but only 1 type of the 3 work. It controls my BP and Neuropathy swelling so it is a must have med.

If any one can explain Socialized Med it’s us. We live it.

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I signed up at Express Scripts years ago but never used it - we either get our prescriptions on base since we’re close to it or at the local Walmart if the base doesn’t carry it or for the occasional instance where it is more convenient - especially since we sometimes have treatments in the local area vs. the base and the hour round trip (not to mention activation and waiting to fill) would not make sense.

[GailA]

Need to check the DOD Mandate, what was sent us from Tricare was you had to use Base or ES, except for a 1 time fill or a ER script, or you’d pay full retail. The 2014 was a pilot program that was made fixed in 2015. That is how the Navy paper work read. I’d assume since it was a DOD Mandate, it covered all branches.

Kroger’s would be our closest pharmacy, just 2 miles away.
Walgreen’s which doesn’t take Tricare is across the street.

We get 2 scripts from ES as base does not carry them, and they are our most expensive ones. No generics. That’s nearly $2K every 3 months retail. Our highest co-pays.

Base for us is 22 mile round trip, so not bad, and usually drop scripts off on the way home from Doctors if it’s not to late. All our docs are in Memphis. We live just over the county line in a small rural berg with no real medical. We always insist on paper scripts. As the Escript is not always up and you have to call and activate the script any way. Simpler to do paper ones as some are out of sink with end of refills. And unlike a private family pharmacy, they don’t file the new script. Pick up the next day, as I’ll make a Commissary trip for meat too. Although they have gotten as expensive as Kroger’s. With NO gas points. I like getting a $1 off of up to 35 gals of gas a fill up. Hubby fills my local run around car out of the lawn mower can, and then takes the van and the can up and fills them. Never less than an additional $22 off a fill up.

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TriCare vs. TriCare Prime? We still get cheaper at Walmart when we use it w/o paying full cost.

[GailA]

Don’t know how you pull it off, but every doc we see now has a Military formula and uses it to Escript or paper script for the Navy Base. Nearly all generics, except where there are none yet. Thankfully they carry my name brand Synthyroid, or I’d be fighting that battle again. Took a year to force them to pay for the name brand, generic is 30% less hormone and has some nasty side effects and I can’t take it. I yo-yo as it is, so ENDO keeps a close tab on it and now per-diabetes as I’ve a digestive disorder that allows no fiber foods, seeds, nuts or rice, so that means high glycemic foods like bread/pasta and a protein. And blood sugar testing in the AM for now. He does not use meds unless he has to. So I watch my diet and weight.

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I wonder if there are some test installations - most of our scripts from military docs are put into the system via computer and we use the hospital pharmacy to pick them up. Refills are generally picked up at the BX pharmacy. On the rare occasions we need paper scripts, we have gotten them or they have called them into the Walmart we choose.

My wife has been on Synthroid for years and way back when they told me it was one of the ones they didn't carry the generic form because of the issues you mention.

Once again - do you have Tricare or Tricare Prime? You don't pay any annual fee for plain Tricare and have more leeway of where to go but it generally requires supplemental insurance of bigger out of pocket costs. Tricare prime costs under $300 a year for one or just under $600 a year for a family. Under it you need to use the base facilities or be referred to get them to pay the lion's share but the drugs and all else is very good if you have a decent medical facility on a close by installation.

[GailA]

We are totally private docs, when our base went from training to BUPERS Navy Records the medical and hospital went with it. So even active Duty see private docs. Tricare LIFE/MEDICARE A/B. Hubby is 77 and a Ret. SCPO, I’m 68.

My ENDO won’t prescribe the generic that is how bad he thinks it is.

That is the most logical reason why all our scripts are either base or ES. Base refills come out of Pensacola.