Blink Health, is a new app and online service that could actually help you get cheaper medicine!
This new startup helps consumers find low prices for generic prescription drugs. Their mission is to “make medication inexpensive, clearly priced and easy to purchase.” There are quite a few reasons why you might want to pay attention to this medical app and potentially add it to your favorite lifestyle and health apps list.
How can you get discounted medication?
- Blink doesn’t charge patients to use the service
- The company takes a cut from every transaction that saves a patient money (they rely on making thin margins on a lot of volume!)
- You can use Blink whether or not you have medical insurance. (Insured patients should just make sure to compare the Blink price with their copay.)
- Blink aims to offer discounts on brand name medication soon
- More than 60,000 US pharmacies, including Walgreens, CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and Duane Reade, accept Blink discounts
- According to Blink Health, 50 percent of the drugs listed in its database are priced at $10 or less for 30 tablets.
How does the Blink Health app work?
- Download the app, they have IOS and Android apps
- Search for perscription or over the counter medication
- Select dosage and quantity you were prescribed
- Save to My Medications, to see the price
- If the price is good, pay through the app
- Go to your pharmacy and show Blink at pickup
Blink Health Founder and CEO Geoffrey Chaiken said in a statement, “Nobody should ever be forced to skip a dose of medicine or leave a prescription behind at the pharmacy counter because they can’t afford it. Our goal with Blink Health is to provide all Americans with the best prices for generic prescriptions, regardless of their insurance status. These prices have always existed for people with the best insurance plans, but Blink Health is making them accessible to all Americans for the first time.”
Blink Health Founder and CEO Geoffrey Chaiken said in a statement, “Nobody should ever be forced to skip a dose of medicine or leave a prescription behind at the pharmacy counter because they can’t afford it. Our goal with Blink Health is to provide all Americans with the best prices for generic prescriptions, regardless of their insurance status. These prices have always existed for people with the best insurance plans, but Blink Health is making them accessible to all Americans for the first time.”
Blink works with group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to negotiate cheaper medication prices with pharmacies. Users who want to use Blink purchase a prescription through the service and are given a Blink voucher, which they can show to the pharmacy to get the prescription discount.
If this startup grows the way it wants to this could be a very impressive and revolutionary app in the health and medical world.
For more information you can visit: Blink Health.
