{"id":15,"date":"2014-02-07T00:04:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T00:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shwt.pushdesign.net\/ppo\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:02:13","slug":"tier-o-prescriptions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/benefits\/tier-o-prescriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tier 0 Prescriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Stay Healthy. Save Money.<\/h3>\n<p>To fight the rapidly rising costs of prescription drugs, the Trust&#8217;s therapeutically based prescription plan includes a &#8220;Tier 0&#8221;. For the highly cost-effective medications under Tier 0, you pay nothing when using a Sound Health &amp; Wellness <a href=\"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/Custom-Pharmacy-Network-SHWT-05-28-2025.pdf\">Trust Custom Network Pharmacy (PDF).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tier 0 drugs are medications that have been proven to be safe and effective for many people, and can provide similar benefits to other more expensive brand and generic drugs at a substantially lower price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"title-header\"><strong>Prescriptions Under Tier 0 Include*:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cholesterol lowering medications (Simvastatin &#8211; all strengths and Rosuvastatin calcium &#8211; only 5 mg &amp; 10 mg)<\/li>\n<li>Proton pump inhibitor (Omeprazole)<\/li>\n<li>Non-sedating antihistamines (Loratadine and Loratadine D)<\/li>\n<li>Treatment of diabetes (Metformin and Lancets)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"note\" style=\"font-size: 14px;margin-top: 0px\"><em>*With physician prescription<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"title-header\"><strong>What You Can Do:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Talk to your doctor about appropriate medication choices for your condition.<\/li>\n<li>If your physician believes that you are one of the majority of patients appropriately treated with one of the $0 co-payment drugs listed above, ask him or her for a written prescription, even if the medication is over-the-counter.<\/li>\n<li>Pick up your prescription at one of the Sound Health &amp; Wellness Trust\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/06\/Custom-Pharmacy-Network-SHWT-05-28-2025.pdf\">Custom Network Pharmacies (PDF)<\/a>\u2014 at no cost to you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can contact Welldyne, the Trust Office, or download the <a href=\"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/02\/SHWT-PPO_Preferred-Drug-List-Alpha-TC_020926.pdf\">formulary<\/a> to find out what Tier your prescriptions are in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stay Healthy. Save Money. To fight the rapidly rising costs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6467,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10107,"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/10107"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soundhealthwellness.com\/ppo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}