A newspaper in Cleburne, Texas, outside Dallas, has published an excellent illustration of a point we’ve been making since we launched eDrugSearch.com: it’s well worth the effort to comparison shop for prescription drugs. An excerpt from the article: Seven local pharmacies were contacted in an effort to discover what an uninsured consumer would pay for [...]
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The value of comparison shopping: an illustration
December 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Drug costs · Online pharmacies · Prescription drugs · Specialty search engines
Study: Prescription drugs cost more in poor neighborhoods
October 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment
One of the biggest advantages of shopping for prescription drugs online is price transparency, which empowers the consumer to easily find the best price among available options. As healthcare consumers well know, it is very difficult to comparison shop among brick-and-mortar pharmacies, because pharmacies typically don’t advertise their prices for prescription drugs (with the exception [...]
Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Drug costs · Healthcare solutions · Online pharmacies · Pharma bloggers · Prescription drugs · Wal-Mart drug plan
Consumer Reports study: Comparison shopping for prescription drugs saves big bucks
September 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments
From CNBC: “A national price study conducted by Consumer Reports and led by Tod Marks showed just how widely prices can vary on the same drugs in pharmacies throughout the country. The survey found that the prices of four particular prescription drugs can vary by as much as $340, and up to $100 even within [...]
Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Drug costs · Prescription drugs
eDrugSearch.com tops 100,000 drug listings
June 30th, 2008 · 2 Comments
We’re very proud to have upgraded our comparison shopping engine to now include more than 100,000 real-time drug listings from our 36 member pharmacies. That’s up from 30,000 listings when we launched in January 2007. Two big reasons for the increase: we’ve added more pharmacies, and we’ve updated our backend to make it much easier [...]
Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Specialty search engines
How do you know you can trust an online retailer?
April 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
eDrugSearch.com was founded on the premise that it can be difficult to know which online retailers you can trust — particularly when the product is prescription medications, and you are comparison shopping for the best price. It’s not worth saving a few dollars (or even a lot of dollars) to risk being ripped off or, [...]
Tags: Comparison shopping engines · Drug safety · eDrugSearch.com · Online pharmacy safety
Comparison shopping engines always looking for a better equation
April 6th, 2008 · No Comments
Saul Hansell at the New York Times has written an interesting piece on Zillow, the real estate valuation site that is now getting into mortgage comparison shopping. What I found most intriguing is how Hansell characterized his views on comparison shopping engines generally: I’ve been in love with the potential of online services to turbocharge [...]
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HealthPricer.com: Buyer beware
April 4th, 2008 · 10 Comments
One of the things I’ve learned since I began blogging about health and medicine in November 2006 is that online discussion and debate helps people make better decisions. As I’ve become involved in the Health 2.0 movement, I’ve reached the much larger conclusion that this movement is going to transform the entire healthcare system. Why? [...]
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