Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company partners with diabetes management platform

Mark Cuban Value Plus Drug Firm (MCCPDC) is partnering with diabetes and power illness administration firm Diathrive Well being to supply lower-cost prescription remedy and diabetes testing provides to Diathrive’s members. 

Diathrive Well being presents people and employers personalised teaching with reside messaging and video chat in addition to care plans, articles and movies to assist handle diabetes. Customers can entry limitless testing provides at their desired frequency by a month-to-month subscription. 

“As a training doctor, I noticed first-hand the hazard of sufferers not with the ability to afford medicines and provides,” Alex Oshmyansky, CEO of Mark Cuban Value Plus Drug Firm, stated in a press release. “I based the Mark Cuban Value Plus Drug Firm to assist remedy this downside and supply a means for sufferers to obtain their therapies at an inexpensive worth. We already supply clear, low costs to cash-pay shoppers and are excited to now be working with an organization like Diathrive Well being to additional cut back the price to sufferers and to maintain the affected person file full from each a scientific and monetary perspective.”

THE LARGER TREND

Over the previous 5 months, MCCPDC has introduced quite a few partnerships.

In September, the corporate established its first partnership with a pharmacy profit supervisor. Two months later, MCCPDC reported a second PBM partnership with EmsanaRx and, in January, MCCPDC revealed its third PBM partnership with RxPreferred Benefits.

MCCPDC introduced its first well being plan partnership with Capital Blue Cross in October, noting Capital’s members would have the ability to use their insurance coverage playing cards at MCCPDC instantly as of the beginning of this yr. 

It lately started working with digital well being firms. Final month, most cancers care assist firm OncoPower signed on to supply prescribed drugs at a decreased price alongside MCCPDC through a platform known as Remedy Financial savings Suite.  

The corporate additionally introduced  a brand new program on Twitter this month, aiming to create an unbiased pharmacists community. Members can be supplied a “Staff Cuban Advantages Card.” Little info is supplied publicly on this endeavor, although Dr. Erin Albert, MCCPDC’s VP of pharmacy relations and chief privateness officer, stated in a podcast the corporate is beta testing the idea this spring.