Welldyne ' s WellCardRx Discount Card/App: Another PBM-Powered Discount Card

In several recent posts during the past few years, I ' ve addressed the emergence of prescription drug discount cards and apps. Perhaps the most notable post on that can be seenHERE.Much of that began with the company known asGoodRx Holdings, Inc., but a downside to GoodRx is because it only has access to a single formulary (most PBM ' s typically a high-price/high-rebate formulary which benefits the PBM, and others demanded by big clients which tend to favor lower cost generic drugs) offered by each PBM it does business with, that also means it may not have access to the other formularies which mainly preference generic drugs, hence GoodRx ' s prices on many generics, quite frankly, stink. That ' s when I discovered a work-around of sorts.Using the PBM known as Express Scripts (now a wholly-owned business unit of the commercial healthcare insurance company Cigna, which the company refers to as its " Evernorth " business unit, perhaps because the PBM name had become kind of toxic and a different name helps investors realize that different management is now running the business) as an example, the Express Scripts formulary GoodRx has access to is quite evidently the largest formulary offered by Express Scripts which is called the Express Scripts ' National Preferred Formulary (NPF). That is it ' s largest commercial formulary, with more than 28 million covered lives and that formulary tends to favor high-price/high-rebate drugs. Meanwhile, it offers a completely different form...
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