GoodRx Prescription Pricing

GoodRx showed me that my prescription costs $11 at one pharmacy and $67 at another pharmacy 3 blocks away. The fact that this information exists but isn't available at the point of care is a design problem worth noticing. The app compares prices across every pharmacy in your area and generates a coupon code that the pharmacist scans at checkout. I used it for the first time when my insurance didn't cover a generic medication and the out-of-pocket price at the campus pharmacy was $54. Opened GoodRx, found the same drug for $9 at a CVS 10 minutes away, showed the pharmacist my phone, and paid $9. The interface is a search bar, a list of prices, and a coupon. Nothing else. No health tracking, no wellness content, no social features. It solves one specific problem and solves it clearly. My roommate who doesn't have insurance uses it for everything and says it has saved her roughly $400 this year. Drug pricing is opaque enough to require a third-party app to make it visible. That should bother more people than it does.