Generics

Find affordable medications for your patients, quickly and easily.

Background

Drug costs are the number one reason patients don't take needed medications, and today's economy makes it even harder for patients to afford needed meds. Over the past few years a number of pharmacies have begun offering discount generic drugs at affordable rates but coverage, costs, and terms vary.

Generics is a free tool for physicians that addresses drug affordability. It lists the discount generic drugs offered by major pharmacies and was designed to to help busy clinicians find affordable drugs during patient encounters.

Features

Browse or Search by Drug Name

Search for specific generic drugs by name to find out which pharmacies offer it as a discount generic.

Browse by Drug Class

Browse drugs by system and drug class, to discover which drugs are offered as discount generics.

Locate Free Drugs

Locate pharmacies that provide free antibiotics or diabetes drugs.

Filter by Pharmacy

Toggle pharmacies on and off to limit drug information to just the pharmacies in your area. Or turn off all the pharmacies except one to easily browse the drugs offered at that pharmacy.

Compare Prices & Quantities

Compare prices per prescription, along with the maximum quantity offered by the pharmacy for that price.

Evaluate Enrollment Fees

Discover which pharmacies charge annual fees.

Avoid Call Backs

Avoid phone calls and rewritten prescriptions by knowing whether a pharmacy requires a 90 day prescription for the discounted price.

Multitask With Ease

Supports iOS 4 for iPhone and iPod Touch, including multitasking. Switch to other apps like Epocrates™ for dosing information and return to right where you left off in Generics.

Pharmacies

Generics includes discount generic info from the following pharmacies:

• CVS
• Kmart
• Rite Aid
• Stop & Shop (also called Giant in some markets)
• Target
• Walgreens
• Walmart

Future

Generics was written by Scott Guelich (a web developer turned medical student) to address medication affordability. The current version of Generics includes the major nationwide pharmacies plus Stop & Shop, but more pharmacies will be added, starting with additional large supermarket and regional pharmacy chains.

Of course, many smaller chains and independent pharmacies offer discount drug programs and/or match the discount prices of the larger chains. Ultimately, it would be ideal to support these pharmacies too, but that can only happen if this becomes a collaborative effort.

The long term goal is to create an open, collaborative online database of discount generic drug pricing that can be updated by pharmacies, health care workers, or patients. This information would be available to any app, website, or healthcare EMR that wishes to include it.

If you would like to help make this happen, please email Scott at .

Support

Find a mistake? Run into a bug? Have a suggestion? Email .

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