![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767681789_532_.jpeg\")
<\/p>\nSALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Did the new year bring you new health insurance?<\/p>\n
The pharmacists at Jolley\u2019s in Salt Lake City say that for the majority of their clientele, it does each year. So we\u2019ve talked with them about those changes and how you can be ready to pick up your prescription.<\/p>\n
With more than 70 years of business run in the family, pharmacist Benjamin Jolley says their shop in Sugar House is in their blood.<\/p>\n
The folks at Jolley\u2019s have seen it all. Once the new year is rung in, their phone starts ringing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe get a lot of frustration with figuring out, \u2018Is this the right insurance for you? No. Can you bill last year\u2019s insurance? No, we can\u2019t,\u2019\u201d said Jolley.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re well-prepared to see a lot of unusual situations as people get used to new coverages, so much that they\u2019re already checking off boxes on a New Year Pharmacy Bingo card.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are things people might say over the phone or at the pharmacy,\u201d Jolley said, pointing to \u201cI don\u2019t have a deductible\u201d and \u201cWhy is it so expensive?\u201d as ones he\u2019s already crossed out.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
But Jolley also appreciates that all the change can be hard to keep up with.<\/p>\n
He says last year brought a new Medicare Prescription Payment Plan to help people manage costs.<\/p>\n
New this year, 10 commonly prescribed drugs, including Jardiance, Eliquis and more, have had their prices negotiated down \u2014 a result of 2022\u2019s Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Eliquis is now about 30% cheaper for everybody and 60% cheaper for people with Medicare,\u201d said Jolley.<\/p>\n
Jolley hopes to spread awareness about these new federal options, and his team is taking steps to simply explain what you owe and why.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt prints on here the patient\u2019s co-pay, but it also has what they\u2019ve paid towards their deductible,\u201d Jolley said, pointing to a sticker he attaches to every script.<\/p>\n
So they\u2019re asking customers to take some of their own. By sending in your insurance card and information ahead of time, it can spare logistical headaches for all involved.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the pharmacy doesn\u2019t have that \u2014 some may not \u2014 that can be an issue,\u201d said Jolley, adding that billing codes often switch from year to year.<\/p>\n
Whether it\u2019s at their location on the corner of 1700 South and 1100 East, or at your local pharmacy, Jolley also asks that you show kindness and patience as they work diligently to get you safe and effective medicine this new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 Did the new year bring you new health insurance? The pharmacists at Jolley\u2019s in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,84,377,1895],"class_list":{"0":"post-391198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-utah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}