Saturday, October 1, 2011

GoodRx: A search engine for prescription prices

There was an earlier post about BidRx, a service which allows patients to submit their prescriptions to a website and have pharmacies make offers as to how much they will charge to fill them.

Now there's another startup called GoodRX which takes a more general approach.  Patients enter the name of the drug and their location.  The site lists the prices offered at various pharmacies in the area and displays the locations on a map.


Again, the question comes up:  Does this kind of service encourage patients to use multiple pharmacies, thus preventing the pharmacist from having the patient's complete medication profile?

Read the story at cnet


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