Perkins Drug and Gifts

12/30/2025

12/24/2025

We will be closing at 12:00 today and will be closed on Christmas Day. We will be open 8:30-6:00 on Friday.
Merry Christmas!!!!

12/15/2025

Don't forget Perkins Drug when thinking of Christmas present ideas! We just received a new shipment of Tyler candles, room sprays, laundry detergents and auto-glams. If Tyler doesn't make "scents" to you... we also have Labubu replicas and keychains!!

12/13/2025

We had a special delivery yesterday. Dr Robert Breedlove has been purchasing butterflies for businesses to bring awareness to Wings of Hope for many years. This year we were blessed to be a business to receive a butterfly. We titled this "Nature... The Best Medicine" and it represents one of my favorite locations in the United States. My family took a vacation to the Grand Tetons in 2020 when Covid began and we were trying to find outside activities to enjoy and quickly fell in love with the mountains. Each picture is based on our favorite places and favorite activities.
Top Left: Schwabacher Landing
Middle Right: T.A. Moulton Barn on Mormon Row
Middle Left: Represents a hiking trail and the wildlife along the way
Bottom: Our first hike in 2020 was to Hidden Falls waterfall.

Thank you again to all those involved with this project, especially the artist, Holly McHughes, who we probably worked way to hard with these detailed pictures!
We hope you enjoy the new addition in front of our store!

12/08/2025

I can't say enough about the job the Oklahoma Attorney General's Office is doing to help the pharmacy and health care industry in our state. Oklahoma is one of the very few states that has been able to move Pharmacy Benefit Manager's (PBM) oversight out of the Dept of Insurance (where there was basically no enforcement of their cronies) and into the Attorney General's oversight. AG Drummond promptly established a PBM Compliance and Enforcement division and recently recouped an initially reported $32 million (which I think actually turned into $46 million after deeper investigation) from CVS Caremark for the Oklahoma state employee health plan. Today's announcement is an additional $5 million that will go back to pharmacies who have been reimbursed below our cost on medications. More importantly, this sets a precedent for the PBM industry that they must follow the laws which have been passed by our legislature relating to fair and reasonable reimbursement.

Attorney General Gentner Drummond today announced a settlement of more than $5 million with CVS Caremark to resolve allegations that the Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) paid Oklahoma pharmacies less than what the medications actually cost. PBMs act as middlemen between insurance companies and pharmac...

10/24/2025

Someone at Perkins Drug has a birthday today!!!

05/19/2025

Happy BELATED Birthday to the one and only… Bailey Kerns!!!! Sorry the loser owner failed you yesterday on your actual birthday!

05/02/2025

Someone is having a birthday at Perkins Drug today!!! Happy Birthday Judy Spillars!!

03/05/2025

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!
I have finally been able to renegotiate the contract with Express Scripts to include Perkins Drug in their 90-day network. In the next couple of weeks, we should be able to go back to filling your prescriptions for 90 days at a time if you prefer. This should include BCBS, Med D BCBS, Med D Cigna and Med D Wellcare. Thank you for your patience and sticking with us (30 days at a time) while this process played out.

02/18/2025

Perkins Drug will be closing today at 4PM due to the weather.

02/02/2025

Congratulations to Perkins Drug’s very own, Krisalyn Fields!!! Basketball Homecoming Queen 2025!

01/03/2025

***UPDATE to the update!!**
I was able to get a contract emailed to me this morning and got it signed and returned. They have already activated Perkins Drug and we are back in the network.***

Contracting update. Today when we started processing prescriptions for SilverScript we started getting rejections for state retirees and employees. Despite being told on multiple occasions by my contracting agency that our Healthchoice/SilverScript patients would be covered, and that the letter from Caremark stating we were not in network was sent out in error... turns out they were mistaken and that we are currently not in network.
I have sent emails to Caremark today requesting a direct, independent contract but I am unsure how long this process will take. So, for now, we will do the best we can with the situation and attempt very fair cash prices or we can transfer your prescriptions to another pharmacy until we have some resolution. I apologize for this inconvenience; I was reassured no less than 5 times that we would definitely be in network on SilverScript. I was even told this morning when I called about the rejections, that it was an administrative issue within Caremark/Aetna that they were working to resolve the error. Then later today, I received an email stating:

"In December of 2024, you may have been informed that your state’s retiree group plan was contracted under our Aetna Medicare Part D contract for 2025. It has since come to our attention that these plans will actually process under the Caremark Medicare Part D 2025 Network for which we are not contracted. Unless you hold a direct Caremark Medicare Part D contract for 2025, you will be out of network for your state’s retiree group plans."

We are still contracted on the Med D SilverScript platform so we can do regular SilverScript, just specifically not the plan for retired teachers and state employees. It seems Caremark holds that specific contract under the Caremark side of their business, unlike the normal Medicare plan that is under the Aetna side of the business.

Steve