What You Should Know:- GoodRx announced that it will acquire vitaCare Prescription Services, a tech-enabled pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharma manufacturers while improving patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs.
- Over 500 million brand prescriptions are written every year, yet only half are ever filled. This acquisition will give GoodRx the tools we need to help address this problem and facilitate the brand
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CoverMyMeds
RelayHealth, McKesson Rx Automation, RxCrossroads Unifies Under CoverMyMeds Brand
What You Should Know:
- Today, CoverMyMeds announced that RelayHealth, McKesson Prescription Automation, CoverMyMeds, and RxCrossroads by McKesson have unified as one business and one team under the CoverMyMeds brand.
- Together, the technology innovation and robust connections to providers, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma provided by RelayHealth and CoverMyMeds; RxCrossroads’ deep therapeutic and drug commercialization expertise; and McKesson Prescription Automation’s
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DrChrono Integrates with CoverMyMeds to Expedite Prior Authorization Processing
DrChrono, today announced its expanded partnership with CoverMyMeds to help providers expedite prior authorization processing, gain insight into prescription prices and help patients get the medication they need when they need it.DrChrono/CoverMyMeds Integration DetailsDrChrono’s integration with CoverMyMeds includes:· RxBenefit Clarity - RxBenefit Clarity is a medication decision support platform that displays the most accurate prescription price information at the point of prescribing. This
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Cerner, CoverMyMeds Integrate to Improve Prescription Price Transparency at Point of Care
Cerner, today announced a new collaboration with CoverMyMeds to integrate patient-specific information into the EHR for providers to review prescription pricing information with their patients at the point of care. Prescription price transparency can help simplify conversations between individuals and their providers to create personalized care plans that meet a person’s medical and financial needs.Integration BenefitsWhen implemented, providers will be able to view prescription benefit
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CoverMyMeds Integrates With athenahealth EHR to Help Patients Fill Prescriptions Faster
athenahealth is teaming up with electronic prior authorization (“ePA”) platform CoverMyMeds for prescriptions that will automate the ePA process for providers using the athenaClinicals electronic health record service.Of the estimated 185 million prescriptions a year in the U.S. that require prior authorization from payers, 40 percent are eventually abandoned. One reason is because the process to determine insurance coverage is extremely time-consuming, involving phone calls and faxes between
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McKesson to Acquire Prior Authorization Network CoverMyMeds for $1.1B: 5 Things to Know
On late Wednesday, McKesson has agreed to acquired Columbus, OH-based CoverMyMeds, the nation’s largest prior authorization (PA) network for $1.1 billion. Founded in 2008, CoverMyMeds’ electronic prior authorization (ePA) service automates and accelerates the prescription approval process, which otherwise is manual and time consuming. By ensuring appropriate access to medications, CoverMyMeds helps customers avoid administrative waste and unnecessary medical spending caused by prescription
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Cerner, CoverMyMeds Integrate to Accelerate Electronic Prior Authorization Process
Cerner and CoverMyMeds are announcing this morning an agreement to integrate CoverMyMeds’ ePA within Cerner’s Millennium EHR. The advanced functionality will provide more than 350,000 e-prescribing end-users the ability to accelerate the prescription review process by removing manual processes and helping to reduce transaction costs. CoverMyMeds will provide Cerner physicians the capability to process requests electronically in seconds and receive notification of a patient’s authorization status
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Practice Fusion EHR Integrates with CoverMyMeds’ Integrated EPA
CoverMyMeds, the nation’s largest prior authorization (PA) network, and Practice Fusion, a cloud-based EHR for doctors and patients, today announced a partnership that will bring CoverMyMeds’ integrated electronic prior authorization (ePA) functionality to Practice Fusion’s 110,000 medical professionals who manage more than 100 million patient records. The integration will enable practitioners on the Practice Fusion platform to submit ePAs for medications to health insurance plans within their
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