I ' d honestly like to be corrected if I ' m wrong but don ' t they have to vote for the winner in 30 or so states ? I don ' t see any of this happening but even so doesn ' t that play into it . And I mean the winner of their state . <| sep |> edit Whoops accidentally posted my reply to the wrong comment lol so sorry if anyone read this twice Makes sense . Tricare , BCBS , and UHC all use ExpressScripts for their pharmacy benefits management , and the reason those insurers are dropping CVS is because they don ' t actually cover pharmacy benefits at all , they all contract ExpressScripts which in an independent 3 rd party pharmacy benefits insurer that those 3 major Heath insurance companies use to outsource the medication side of healthcare co stage . Its actually ExpressScripts who has the contracts with retail pharmacies , sets the copays , determines what drugs are and aren ' t covered , and process and payout drug claims . This whole thing is due to ExpressScripts trying to push their prescription mail delivery option on their members over filling their drugs at retail pharmacies , and CVS has a RX mail order program as well with Caremark . This makes them their main competitor in the prescription mail delivery market , so they decided to just flat out not cover CVS at all , so that members of UHC , BCBS , and Tricare will only have one choice of option if they are interested in mail order drug programs . It ' s fucking stupid as shit and in my opinion is dangerously close to manufacturing a monopoly . I ' m on Tricare and I LOVE my CVS and I just had my very last fill with them yesterday and I ' m so upset about it . Last month I was talking with a few of the tech ' s about it , and was told that corporate and legal were trying to fight it , but as December 1 st approaches I ' m saddened to assume that the efforts were unsuccessful . But I ' m also hoping that maybe they are still in the middle of the dispute and could win the coverage back so I can return to my favorite CVS staff who I ' ve filled with abs known for almost 6 years now