This week, I’m rerunning some popular posts while I'm on vacation. Click here to see the original post and comments from May 2017.
Last week, the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) Express Scripts and the online discount card company GoodRx partnered on a new program called Inside Rx. The program provides point-of-sales discounts to uninsured patients on at least 40 brand-name drugs from eight manufacturers. Click here to read the press release.
This innovative partnership is the latest attempt to offer direct-to-consumer discounts that pop the gross-to-net bubble—at least for uninsured patients. Below, I delve deep inside Inside Rx. I explain:
- How uninsured patients benefit
- What’s in it for manufacturers, Express Scripts, and GoodRx
- Which pharmacies are in the program’s narrow network
- The surprises on the drug list
- How inside Rx compares with CVS Health’s Reduced Rx program
Depending on your position in the drug channel, you will feel either joy, sadness, fear, disgust, or anger as this new program rolls out. Please feel free to emote in the comments below.
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