Aetna Office Link Updates
COPY EXCERPT: Aetna Office Link Updates
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Changes in drug coverage reviews may affect patients
We have new formulary guidelines to help your patients better manage costs and stay healthy. These guidelines include precertification and step therapy for some drugs that didn’t require them before. This may affect the drugs your patients take. To see which guidelines apply to which drugs, check the drug tiers on your patients’ formulary. You can still prescribe the drugs you think are best. Remember to contact us to request approval of coverage. If we don’t approve it, your patient can still buy the drug, but they’ll need to pay the full cost.
You’ll begin to see these new formulary names: Aetna Value, Aetna Value Plus, Aetna Premier, and Aetna Premier Plus. We have programs in place to help your patients transition to new coverage or medications. For example, when they switch to a new medicine, they may be able to fill their prescriptions for a limited time, for drugs that normally require precertification or for step therapy.
At least annually, and from time to time throughout the year, we update the Aetna Medicare and Commercial (non-Medicare) Preferred Drug Lists. These drug lists are also known as our formularies.
• Go to our Medicare Preferred Drug Lists
• Go to our Medication Search page for the Commercial Preferred Drug Lists For a paper copy of these lists, call the Aetna Pharmacy Management Provider Help Line at 1-800-AETNA RX (1-800-238-6279).
Download a PDF of the Aetna Office Links Updates Guidelines. 
