In BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina's open formulary benefit design, once a drug is FDA approved, we will cover it. Dual eligibles have gotten used to the open formulary under Medicaid, but some of Medicare's formularies might be closed, and we don't know what those will be.
Shingle(noun) a piece of wood sawed or rived thin and small, with one end thinner than the other, -- used in covering buildings, especially roofs, the thick ends of one row overlapping the thin ends of the row below.
WHAT IS SHINGLES? Shingles is a very painful disease caused by the same herpes virus that causes chickenpox (varicella zoster virus). Like other herpes viruses, the varicella-zoster virus has an initial infectious stage (chickenpox) followed by a dormant stage.