Why DisclosedRx Clients Are Paying Less for the Same Medications

When it comes to managing pharmacy benefits, most employers assume that savings come from bigger discounts or higher rebates. But what if the best savings come from simply buying the same medication through a smarter channel?

That’s exactly what our Agile Channel Management Program does. We help employers take advantage of every opportunity in the market to get the same FDA-approved drugs for less.

What Is Agile Channel Management?

Agile Channel Management is DisclosedRx’s proactive, data-driven approach to sourcing medications at the lowest possible net cost.

We identify and leverage every legitimate pathway to savings, including:

Manufacturer copay assistance programs

Patient assistance programs

International sourcing for brand drugs where it’s legally permissible and safe

Our goal is simple: get the exact same medication at a lower price without compromising quality or compliance.

How International Sourcing Works

One of the most powerful tools in our program is international sourcing, especially for high-cost specialty drugs.

Here’s the key: when we source a drug internationally, we only import brand-name products. That means the drug is identical—same manufacturer, same packaging, same ingredients—just sold through a different channel.

For example, Humira (one of the most expensive drugs in the world) is manufactured in Puerto Rico. No matter where you buy it—in the U.S., Canada, or the U.K.—it’s the exact same drug. Yet, the cost to acquire it in Canada can be 50% less or more than in the U.S.

This process is completely legal when done through the FDA’s defined framework, and it’s one of the most effective ways to bring down costs on specialty medications.

Why Big PBMs Don’t Use It

Traditional PBMs avoid international sourcing because it interferes with their rebate-driven business model.

When a PBM sources a drug internationally, there’s no rebate. And without rebates, there’s no margin for them to keep. That means they’d rather overpay for a drug and collect a rebate than buy it cheaper up front.

At DisclosedRx, we do the opposite.

We don’t earn a penny from rebates so our only incentive is to save our clients money.

How Members Benefit (and Why It’s Easy)

Plan members always have a choice when it comes to where their medication comes from. But if we can make it free or much less expensive for them, most members gladly choose the lower-cost option.

For the member, the experience doesn’t change. For the plan, it can mean paying $6,000 per year instead of $11,000 per month for the same drug.

How Employers See Results

Before a new client’s plan even goes live, DisclosedRx identifies all members who could benefit from Agile Channel Management.

Our team reaches out directly with a personal call. A typical call sounds like this:

“Hi, this is Jessica from DisclosedRx. My job is to help you save on your prescriptions. I see you’re taking [Drug Name] and paying $250 a month. Let’s see if we can get that down to zero.”

From there, the member is enrolled in the right program, whether that’s international sourcing, patient assistance, or another savings channel.

The Savings Are Real (and Guaranteed)

For a 1,000-member group, our program typically delivers around $400,000 in guaranteed annual savings, and often even more.

That averages out to roughly $400 in savings per member per year, just from this program alone. And since we back our results with performance guarantees, if we don’t deliver the savings we project, we write the client a check for the difference.

Doing the Right Thing, Every Time

At the heart of our program and everything we do is our fiduciary promise: we only earn from our employer clients, never from drug manufacturers, pharmacies, or hidden fees.

We built DisclosedRx so that no employee of ours would ever face the moral conflict so common in this industry. We never want greed to be able to set in. That’s why our contract says we can only earn from our clients. It’s the right way to do business.

Bringing honesty to pharmacy benefits isn’t just our mission, it’s our model. We’re proving, every day, that you can build a successful PBM by being aligned with the client’s interests.

We like to say we’re fixing healthcare one employer at a time.