MeridianRx Gains Trusted Health Plan As New Client

DETROIT, July 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MeridianRx, a Detroit-based pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company signed a contract to provide pharmacy benefit services for Trusted Health Plan, a Washington D.C.-based Medicaid health plan, on June 29 and started providing services to Trusted Health Plan's 30,000 members on July 1.

"The short turnaround time to initiate services did not deter us," Rene Acker, Chief Operating Officer of MeridianRx, said. "This was a great opportunity for us to bring our high-quality pharmacy benefit services to a client in a new region."

MeridianRx has been providing pharmacy benefit services to Medicaid and Medicare health plans since 2011 and commercial pharmacy benefit management since 2013. Committed to transparency, flexibility and innovation, MeridianRx's clinical programs, pharmacy network and drug formulary are focused on providing the highest level of quality while reducing pharmacy costs for clients. MeridianRx's generic utilization rates are 16.3% higher than the national average. Clients who sign up with MeridianRx experience complete network access, lower administrative fees and fast, reliable claims processing.

MeridianRx is a full-service Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) company, with extensive experience serving Medicaid, Medicare and commercial health plans in Michigan and Illinois. MeridianRx currently serves over 300,000 Medicaid members and is an affiliate of Meridian Health Plan. For more information, visit www.meridianrx.com.  

SOURCE MeridianRx