Medication Guidance
Save on prescription costs
According to the CDC, 9 million Americans aren’t taking their medications as prescribed due to cost. With so many medication options, high costs and complex insurance details, it’s easy for members to feel overwhelmed. Medication guidance simplifies these challenges, helping them make optimal decisions about their prescriptions.
Expertise
Direct Cost Management Through Expert Medication Guidance
Medication guidance ensures that members understand their medications, know how to take them correctly, and are aware of potential side effects. It can also directly impact cost management in several ways:
Preventing Costly Medication Waste
By ensuring patients receive the right drugs in the right doses, these services minimize the risk of unused medications, which are often costly.
Reducing Costs Through Medication Adherence
Patients who clearly understand their medication regimens are more likely to follow them accurately, preventing costly complications and hospitalizations due to non-adherence.
Optimizing Medication Therapy
Guidance helps in selecting cost-effective alternatives, such as generics or therapeutic equivalents, which can offer the same benefits at a fraction of the cost.
Impact of Medication Waste on Payers
$290B
Effects on Insurance Companies and Payers
Improving medication adherence could save the healthcare system up to $290 billion annually, a significant portion of which is related to avoiding wasteful spending on medications.
Source: National Community Pharmacists Association
10%
Reducing Hospitalizations
Poor medication adherence results in approximately 10% of hospitalizations in the U.S., costing the healthcare system between $100 billion to $289 billion annually.
Source: Annals of Internal Medicine
9M
Medication Cost Barrier
9 million Americans aren’t taking their medications as prescribed due to cost.
Source: CDC
Meet our Experts
Emily Reonegro
Clinical Pharmacist
Emily Reonegro has always had a passion for medicine and advocacy. As a clinical pharmacist at Emry, she’s seen the true impact cost-saving, clinically identical alternatives have on payers—and patients. New drugs come to market every single day. Emily studies these drugs, their efficacy and their cost to help clients understand which to embrace and which require further clinical studies.
Solutions
Our Solutions
Navigator
Full-service healthcare guidance
HFA technology, bill review and negotiation, plus one-tap access to navigation services for lower-cost care, pharmacy discounts and human help whenever needed.Â
BillAssist
Lower high-cost medical bills
Our technology helps employees quickly determine eligibility for hospital financial assistance (HFA) and connects them with a navigator who can review bills for accuracy and negotiate lower out-of-pocket costs.
+ DebtProtect
An extra layer of medical debt protection, offering members a payment up to a selected dollar amount, annually. *Program amount tailored to group needs.
For Private Clients & Executives
Emry Concierge
Our high-touch, customized patient advocacy services eliminate healthcare headaches for your clients or executives—erasing stress and reclaiming precious time.
Business leaders: Your busy executives need an advocate to help them navigate healthcare. We’ll make optimal use of their health plan, reduce total benefits costs, enhance satisfaction and save money for them and the firm.
Industry Impact
