How it works Customers over the age of 18 will have access to the pharmacy service this week in 45 states, not including Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota. Amazon expects to serve those states over time. Amazon Pharmacy will accept most forms of insurance, but could offer savings for people without insurance as well. Customers can also use flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts to buy prescriptions on the service. Before customers order medication for the first time, the site might ask them questions such as whether they’re pregnant, their date of birth, and their gender as it was assigned at birth. That information is required by law to provide pharmacy care, and it helps pharmacists to do things like confirm prescriptions. Doctors can send prescriptions directly to Amazon Pharmacy, or patients can request a transfer from an existing retailer, like CVS or Walgreens. Amazon says it has tools to verify that a physician legitimately ordered each prescription, and to tamp down on potential fraud. Amazon Prime customers get free two-day delivery, although shipping might take up to five days the first time a customer orders, as it takes time to transfer a medication. Customers who don’t have Prime can get free delivery within five days, or they can pay $5.99 to upgrade to two-day delivery. The medicines on offer include a mix of generic and brand-name drugs. Customers can get access to birth control, as well as commonly prescribed drugs like insulin, triamcinolone steroid creams, metformin for controlling blood sugar, and sumatriptan for migraines. Amazon will not deliver Schedule II controlled medications, including most opioids, and it won’t be replacing the Health & Personal Care store by offering vitamins and supplements. Customers who have questions about their medications can reach a pharmacist or pharmacy technician at any time through online self-service or phone. Amazon will also screen for potentially problematic drug interactions for customers who are taking multiple medications at once. Amazon’s Parker said that the storage and collection of customer health information is in compliance with federal HIPAA rules, and the company won’t share pharmacy data to advertisers or marketers without permission. Amazon has leveraged its rich troves of customer data to build advertising into a key pillar of its overall business, and shows customers personalized ads and offersdiscounts based on what they have bought in the past. But consumers are likely to have a different set of expectations when they’re placing a prescription order versus browsing for a new pair of pants. “The information and experience you have inside the pharmacy is separate and distinct from the experience that you have on Amazon.com,” Parker said. PillPack will continue to serve customers even after Amazon Pharmacy launches. That’s because PillPack is designed for a different use-case: It delivers medicines on a 30-day schedule to a population of patients that tend to be sicker and older than average, and often require multiple prescriptions. For Prime users: A prescription savings benefit Amazon Prime members have access to an additional pharmacy perk called the “prescription savings benefit,” which offers a discount of up to 80% on generic medications and up to 40% on brand-name prescriptions. Amazon negotiated those discounts through a relationship with the InsightRX savings program, which is part of Evernorth, a company that grew out of a merger between Express Scripts and insurance giant Cigna in 2018. Insurers use pharmacy benefits managers like Evernorth to negotiate drug rebates from drug manufacturers in exchange for better coverage. Even for people who have health coverage, the Prime price might still end up being more affordable than the co-pay -- Amazon’s Parker said it happens “more frequently than people think” (although it won’t count towards a deductible). Prime customers can also get a prescription savings benefit card to use at up to 50,000 pharmacies, including CVS, Walmart, Rite Aid, and Walgreens. This might be preferable for customers who have an urgent need for a medication and can’t wait two days for delivery. Amazon’s Parker said the company does not currently have any brick-and-mortar pharmacies, and declined to speculate on future product offerings. But in future, the company could add pharmacies to Whole Foods and its chain of Amazon Fresh stores.
药真无所谓吧，不过Walgreens有些东西Amazon都没有，加上一些折扣价格也不错，现在Walgreens也可以店里直接pickup感觉很方便，ship to store也是free shipping，CVS就差一些，非得凑$35刀，差不了几块钱就走Walgreens了，他家起码应该可以搞个pickup。最近Walgreens下了3、4单了
盘前， WBA -11%, CVS -8% RAD -11%, ABC -6% CAH -5% recently gone-public online drug comparison player GoodRx (NASDAQ:GDRX), down 16.6% premarket.
对消费者也许不是坏事吧， 竞争越激烈越可能找到跟便宜服务更好的
自己不思进取，又没有竞争力，又没有护城河，就只能等死了
Customers over the age of 18 will have access to the pharmacy service this week in 45 states, not including Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana and Minnesota. Amazon expects to serve those states over time.
Amazon Pharmacy will accept most forms of insurance, but could offer savings for people without insurance as well. Customers can also use flexible spending accounts or health savings accounts to buy prescriptions on the service.
Before customers order medication for the first time, the site might ask them questions such as whether they’re pregnant, their date of birth, and their gender as it was assigned at birth. That information is required by law to provide pharmacy care, and it helps pharmacists to do things like confirm prescriptions.
Doctors can send prescriptions directly to Amazon Pharmacy, or patients can request a transfer from an existing retailer, like CVS or Walgreens. Amazon says it has tools to verify that a physician legitimately ordered each prescription, and to tamp down on potential fraud.
Amazon Prime customers get free two-day delivery, although shipping might take up to five days the first time a customer orders, as it takes time to transfer a medication. Customers who don’t have Prime can get free delivery within five days, or they can pay $5.99 to upgrade to two-day delivery.
The medicines on offer include a mix of generic and brand-name drugs. Customers can get access to birth control, as well as commonly prescribed drugs like insulin, triamcinolone steroid creams, metformin for controlling blood sugar, and sumatriptan for migraines.
Amazon will not deliver Schedule II controlled medications, including most opioids, and it won’t be replacing the Health & Personal Care store by offering vitamins and supplements. Customers who have questions about their medications can reach a pharmacist or pharmacy technician at any time through online self-service or phone. Amazon will also screen for potentially problematic drug interactions for customers who are taking multiple medications at once.
Amazon’s Parker said that the storage and collection of customer health information is in compliance with federal HIPAA rules, and the company won’t share pharmacy data to advertisers or marketers without permission.
Amazon has leveraged its rich troves of customer data to build advertising into a key pillar of its overall business, and shows customers personalized ads and offersdiscounts based on what they have bought in the past. But consumers are likely to have a different set of expectations when they’re placing a prescription order versus browsing for a new pair of pants. “The information and experience you have inside the pharmacy is separate and distinct from the experience that you have on Amazon.com,” Parker said.
PillPack will continue to serve customers even after Amazon Pharmacy launches. That’s because PillPack is designed for a different use-case: It delivers medicines on a 30-day schedule to a population of patients that tend to be sicker and older than average, and often require multiple prescriptions.
For Prime users: A prescription savings benefit
Amazon Prime members have access to an additional pharmacy perk called the “prescription savings benefit,” which offers a discount of up to 80% on generic medications and up to 40% on brand-name prescriptions.
Amazon negotiated those discounts through a relationship with the InsightRX savings program, which is part of Evernorth, a company that grew out of a merger between Express Scripts and insurance giant Cigna in 2018. Insurers use pharmacy benefits managers like Evernorth to negotiate drug rebates from drug manufacturers in exchange for better coverage.
Even for people who have health coverage, the Prime price might still end up being more affordable than the co-pay -- Amazon’s Parker said it happens “more frequently than people think” (although it won’t count towards a deductible).
Prime customers can also get a prescription savings benefit card to use at up to 50,000 pharmacies, including CVS, Walmart, Rite Aid, and Walgreens. This might be preferable for customers who have an urgent need for a medication and can’t wait two days for delivery.
Amazon’s Parker said the company does not currently have any brick-and-mortar pharmacies, and declined to speculate on future product offerings. But in future, the company could add pharmacies to Whole Foods and its chain of Amazon Fresh stores.
Walmart和best buy线上都做得不错，越战越勇。
亚麻是个搅局者。挺好的。 所有舒舒服服挣钱的公司，现在都有竞争对手了。
亚麻做的恰恰是反垄断，反药店的垄断。
等完全垄断之后就不是这么回事了，amazon做的太大了，已经有垄断之势
刚想说呢，反垄断法呢， DOJ 的人都干嘛去了？
房子要是能网购，把中介消除了，我倒是不反对。
卖药其实很黑的，amazon要能打破是好事
支持。
在线开药，
在线问诊，
5G时代很快会实现。
亚马逊现在真是太邪恶了。
Amazon垄断什么行业了？
房子中介唯一的用处就是帮忙开房门，不然也确实没必要。房子还是要实地看一下才好，很多网上照片挺照骗的
我也觉得CVS还是有力量和AMAZON一拚的。 我家离CVS只一个BLOCK， 看完医生回到家就能去拿药。 而且free delivery, 疫情期间只要不急我都选delivery, 也很快。
Amazon价格贵才是真的
觉得不是啊，你觉得这些超级网店把实体店和其它小的竞争对手击垮后不会涨价吗？
同意. 它家实际上是把很多垄断的生意打破了.
my wish too LOL
sick and tired dealing with car dealers
亚麻不是没想过。compass近几年一直致力于被亚麻收购，新冠一出，至少又要多等几年了
可是消费者都快失业了，咋消费？
哪那么容易挤垮，就像照片打印，amazon也没有多大优势，就是行业内多个竞争对手。药品更是需要看完医生当天拿到，很难被Amazon垄断。
OTC早就可以在Amazon买了，现在是开卖prescription.
没有工作，巡环起来，大家都受影响
医疗保险公司都有online药房，希望客户用，好帮他们降低cost，但客户就是不用，都喜欢去CVS和WALGREEN.
这个职业纯属美国造出来的高学历职业。国内药房低学历的大妈不要太多..
我现在都不从amazon买东西了，很讨厌他家
淘宝京东来了，根本没他们啥事。秒杀
我觉得Walgreens最近改版了还挺好用的，app也比以前好用一些，就是买东西半个小时以后就不能退了，运出来还挺快，比Amazon还快，Amazon他家有时候不知道为啥等几天才开运。
不知道以后PCP是不是可以选amazon了
已经可以网购汽车了啊，去年年初我就网购过一辆车。
同意 新车都变成网购 dealer转型成修车保养兼买卖二手车 试新车可以采取收费模式
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早就可以了。。。
Sorry 手机滑动不知道怎么就点踩了…
那如果有一天又一个要需要临时不用怎么办啊？比如那天血压偏低，需要hold其中一个或者俩药片。很多药片都长的分辨不出啊