There has to be a catch but what is it and how do they profit?
We are bombarded by adds for apps for our phones. One is the gasoline App UPSIDE the other one flooding the airwaves is GOOD RX.
Nothing in life is free. There has to be a catch for using these Apps, do you know what it is? How do these companies make money? The advertising budget for these apps has to be in he millions of dollars a month.
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I use Good RX and it at the time was CHEAPER than my insurance after it paid what was covered. I enquired at my RX and asked the guy and he stated I researched all of these and I can't find out what it is but he stated after his findings Good RX was the overall cheapest of them all. I to wonder other than target groups and put adds on your phone and home network. Strange it is.
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When you put anything on your phone.....it gets access to WAY more than you realize. The fine print is insane. They are collecting data of all kind and they use it to target even more people. They can access your contacts, messages, location, camera, microphone, all of the data and such that you hold in your hand. Something as silly as a bubble popping game can be very intrusive. Be careful what you put on your phone.
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Locust Fork pretty well nails it. We have become so use to calling them phones, but in reality they are a hand held computer. And computers were designed to collect and store information.
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I just posted in another thread about my skin cancer chemo cream called Imiquimod. Retail price is $122 for 24 single-dose packets. GoodRx shows it can be had from $12 to $15. How they can do that is beyond me.
Someone somewhere is getting a chunk of that 88% discount in the manner of kickbacks. If GRx is selling your purchase data, that may be how they are getting "reimbursed" but how does the store benefit? Beats me.
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Let me add something I learned about prescriptions too.....
The pharmacy has a contract with the various drug plans.....if you go into the pharmacy and tell them you need something filled they might can sell it to you for a lower price than you know. They cannot disclose the price if you have a plan on file with them. Your "part" might actually be more than the price they sell to people without coverage. Its crazy.
I saw a video the other day pointing out this nonsense. A drug that they sell to the public for $4 was $7 with insurance. Crazy.
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When they ask "How do you want to pay for this?" it might be wise to reply, "What is the lowest price for it?"
Keep your insurance, a GoodRx app, and money hidden until you know. You might even get an honest druggist.
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Double tapped that big green box again, dammit.
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It's crazy. My mother was paying $30/month for a drug plan where her scripts were $19 each. Our Pharmacist used G RX & each one was $9. I switched her to a $5/month plan (with the same co) & went to a different pharmacy. Now each script is only $6.
We had to switch pharmacies as ours wouldn't sign our plan's new contract because they would loose money on scripts.
You have to shop around.
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