Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
by prepend on Thursday June 28, 2018 @12:56PM
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I don’t get many prescriptions so when my doc writes one I don’t care who fills it. She couldn’t send it to a random mail order pharmacy, I had to pick one.
I think there’s a big opportunity for insurers to pick a default mail pharmacy that customers out of. So depending on your insurer, the EMR automatically files with a pharmacy you don’t care about and mails it to you within 24 hours.
Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
by cowpewter on Thursday June 28, 2018 @02:12PM
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My employer-provided insurance is UHC, which has a preferred partner situation with OptumRX, a mailorder pharmacy. They give you better rates on your prescription copay if you use them. The mail turn-around time is not great though. It's good for long-term prescriptions, shitty for short term like antibiotics.
My doctor sends short term stuff to a local pharmacy for me to pick up, and my daily long term pills to Optum, who charges my CC and mails them to me. They take about a week to arrive, but you can set it up so they automatically recur, so you always get your next 90 days before your current pills run out.
Re:Amazon buys PillPack, an online pharmacy, for just under $1B
by prostoalex on Thursday June 28, 2018 @01:53PM
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> there’s a big opportunity for insurers to pick a default mail pharmacy
Looks like it’s already happening, albeit in an opposite direction, with Aetna acquisition by CVS.
Basically, the largest potential market for you is not tech savvy at all and makes it hard to convert.