{"id":21430,"date":"2020-05-22T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/?p=21430"},"modified":"2024-07-28T15:42:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T19:42:25","slug":"message-from-canada-life-general-information-about-generics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/2020\/message-from-canada-life-general-information-about-generics\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Canada Life: General Information about Generics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Message from Canada Life: General Information about Generics\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>You may have heard the term \u201cgeneric\u201d before &#8211; what does this mean? The generic alternative of a drug is one with the same active ingredients as a brand name drug and is just as effective, but costs less.&nbsp;Your prescription drug benefits plan includes parameters that limit the amount you are reimbursed for prescription drugs to the cost of the lowest priced generic alternative.* To save on costs for both yourself and your plan, make sure to ask your pharmacist and\/or your physician if a generic is available for any medication you have been prescribed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>*You may need to keep taking a brand name drug for medical reasons. If this is the case, make sure to fill out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatwestlife.com\/content\/dam\/gwl\/cl-branded-documents-2020\/drug-claim-management\/en\/M7088.pdf\">Brand Name Drug Coverage form<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have heard the term \u201cgeneric\u201d before &#8211; what does this mean? The generic alternative of a drug is one with the same active ingredients as a brand name drug and is just as effective, but costs less.&nbsp;Your prescription drug benefits plan includes parameters that limit the amount you are reimbursed for prescription drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-benefits-for-employees","category-for-employees"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"nature-butterfly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21431,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21430\/revisions\/21431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}