prescription drugs

Amazon Expands Prescription Offering to Medicare Members
Amazon Expands Prescription Offering to Medicare Members
June 18, 2024  |  Amazon

Amazon said it has expanded its prescription drug program to include Medicare beneficiaries. Beginning Tuesday (June 18), more than 50 million enrollees in the government...

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Optum Rx Launches Tool That Compares Prescription Drug Prices 
Optum Rx Launches Tool That Compares Prescription Drug Prices 
January 23, 2023  |  Healthcare

Optum Rx has launched a tool that gives members the best price on prescription drugs. The new Price Edge tool from Optum Rx, which is...

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Amazon Reportedly Eyes Japan’s Prescription Drug Market
Amazon Reportedly Eyes Japan’s Prescription Drug Market
September 05, 2022  |  Amazon

Amazon is considering entering the prescription drug sales market in Japan, according to a Reuters report Monday (Sept. 5). If it does so, it plans to...

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Report: GoodRx Files For IPO
Report: GoodRx Files For IPO
August 03, 2020  |  IPO

GoodRx Inc., the Santa Monica, Calif.-based prescription drug price-comparison company, plans to go public. Reuters reported the online company has filed for a potential initial...

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ePharma Takes Aim At High Drug Prices
ePharma Takes Aim At High Drug Prices
February 20, 2020  |  Healthcare

Be thankful you don’t have lipodystrophy. It’s a condition in which the body cannot control production of fat tissue. It can cause energy control problems...

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Health-Data Startup Nets $100M From Google, Others
Health-Data Startup Nets $100M From Google, Others
February 06, 2020  |  Healthcare

San Francisco’s Verana Health, a health-data startup, raised $100 million from investors, such as GV (Google) and Bain Capital. The plentiful interest in Verana signals...

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Solving Healthcare’s $200M/Year Abandoned Rx Shopping Cart Problem
Solving Healthcare’s $200M/Year Abandoned Rx Shopping Cart Problem
May 31, 2019  |  Healthcare

Way back when, medicine used to be simple. Grind up, boil and drink a few roots here, employ a few leeches there. Pay a barber...

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New Mexico Lawsuit Sparks Marijuana Business Tax Debate
New Mexico Lawsuit Sparks Marijuana Business Tax Debate
January 29, 2019  |  B2B Payments

Paying business taxes is a key source of friction for many legal marijuana companies in the nation, particularly for companies that operate on a cash-only...

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Kroger Debuts Rx Membership Program
Kroger Debuts Rx Membership Program
December 13, 2018  |  Retail

Kroger has launched the Rx Savings Club, which aims to significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs for customers across the country. The program adds...

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