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PreCheck MyScript: A Real-Time Benefits Data

Get patient-specific prescription costs, lower-cost options and coverage details right at the point of care through your EHR platform.

Creating a better healthcare experience

Doctors in the U.S. write more than 4 billion prescriptions each year. PreCheck® MyScript helps make it easier, changing how physicians prescribe medicine.

Using PreCheck MyScript

EHR integration

Embedded into your existing workflow

When ePrescribing, PreCheck MyScript runs a trial claim and displays patient coverage, drug costs, and alternative medications

ePrescribing

No forms, faxes or calls to make

With PreCheck MyScript, there are no forms to fill out, and there’s no need to send us a fax or make a phone call.

Key benefits

Research found PCMS benefits patients, providers and pharmacies with lower costs, improved outcomes and reduced administrative burdens.

Save the patient money

When prescribers selected lower-cost alternative drugs suggested by PCMS, patients saved an average of $119 per prescription.1

Increase patient medication adherence

Patient medication adherence increased by up to 4% for 3 chronic conditions: diabetes, hypercholesterolemia and hypertension.2

Increase patient adoption

Patients whose providers used PCMS were more likely to obtain their medication than those whose providers did not use the tool.3

Provide pricing transparency and avoid PAs

Providers save 50 minutes and $41.05 per patient prescription each time an alternative is selected, avoiding prior authorizations.4

Getting the most out of your real-time benefits check tool data

Continue to ePrescribe. Review patient information presented. When appropriate, switch your patient to a lower-cost equivalent alternative.

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Product information and resources

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    Resource library

    How to talk with patients about managing medication costs

    While discussions about medication costs can be difficult, PCMS data gives providers access to patient-specific costs, coverage and therapeutic alternatives at point-of-care.

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Sources

  1. Optum Rx analysis of full year (January–December 2023) trial claim and production claim data.
  2. Optum Rx data within the diabetes, statin, and hypertension therapeutic classes, 2016–2018.
  3. Internal Optum Rx study.
  4. Third-party analysis of Optum Rx claims data, July 2017–November 2018.