Hello Everyone,
I’M sure we are all aware of the app Good RX. I’ve used it and pay less with the app than with my insurance with all three of my scripts. I save more then half.
I see the benefit to the consumer, but what’s in it for the pharmacies and the drug companies? ISTM that they’re losing money or more precisely losing profit. How does this work? What’s the hook?
Thanks!
Wow, that’s creepy. I have used GoodRx to check prices on all kinds of drugs that I have never taken or been prescribed: for my mother-in-law, something I read an article about and got curious about, for clients’ immigration cases. I would certainly hope the default assumption isn’t that anyone who checks a price on something is buying it for personal use.
You could hope that.
I haven’t used it, but I was given a card by my gyno when we weren’t sure if my insurance would cover a specific birth control pill I was on. I haven’t had to use it (all my prescriptions have been $10 or under, fortunately), but I have it just in case. I’d be super curious to know how the whole thing works, too.
My mom has used it to research prices for meds for her pets (people medicine gets prescribed for pets a fair amount). She said the tech at Walmart recommended it to her. I’ll bet the company has all kinds of interesting data by now.