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While saving money may be good for customers, they are pure evil for which ever pharmacy you choose to go to, which is why some pharmacies have decided to not except them anymor. These discount cards interrupt how pharmacies run their busines. How this works is say a prescription cost $500, you bring this coupon in and lowers it to $100, sweet right, wrong! The pharmacy then looses about 400 dollars on the med because unlike true insurance, these discount cards give little to no reimbursement back on the med that the pharmacy paid to get. It's like working hard for two weeks to get that pay check and your boss says "I have this discount card so I only have to pay you 10% of what I pay you normally, but you've been working here for years saving money so I know you'll be fine". So when you submit this card you're causing that pharmacy to loose money which then means they have to cut staffing to reflect that, which then means an over worked pharmacy tech looses their job, but hey anything to save yourself a couple of dollars right?
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Hi John - Appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this issue. It's important to correct your statements, however, because it sounds like you have some fundamental misunderstandings of how prescription discount cards work. Specifically:
1) As any pharmacist knows, discount cards do not send reimbursements to pharmacies at all. Rather, pharmacy discount cards provide a consumer with a discounted price off the high retail prices that pharmacies typically charge. The patient pays the pharmacy the entire cost of the drug.
2) Per your claim that pharmacies "loose 400 dollars", the price the consumer pays with a pharmacy discount card is almost always higher than the amount that the pharmacy would receive from a consumer using insurance. Let's be more clear - the pharmacy makes MORE profit from of the person using a discount card than the person who has insurance or Medicare. That should make you happy, not mad?
3) Your complaint above makes it sound like pharmacies are being forced to accept this 'pure evil'. But your pharmacy chose to accept the contract offered to it and they accepted these rates. So, if cards are 'pure evil', then why did your pharmacy sign a contract agreeing to accept them? It's a free country, after all.
4) Virtually all of the pharmacies that GoodRx works with are thrilled to have new customers who can finally afford the medications their doctors prescribe. Not sure where you're hearing about pharmacies that don't accept them - we only list pharmacies who have contractually agreed to accept our coupons.
5) GoodRx lists many prices, not just coupons. If your pharmacy wants to send over their cash prices, we'll be happy to list them. I just hope that your prices are fair prices that provide you with a reasonable profit but also ensure that Americans can afford their prescriptions.
6) "Lose" is spelled with one o - not "loose". Sorry, Mom's an English teacher.
Hope this clarifies things a bit. Happy to continue the conversation - feel free to reach out to us at help@goodrx.com.