CINCINNATI, Dec. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kroger Co.
announced today the launch of its Rx Savings Club, a new program
designed to significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs for
customers across the country, adding to the retailer's Wellness
Your Way platform. The program was developed in partnership with
GoodRx—America's number one source for prescription drug
savings.
The Kroger Rx Savings Club provides customers with exclusive
access to discounts on commonly-prescribed generic medications for
widespread conditions in the U.S., including diabetes, asthma,
mental health issues, women's health concerns, and gastrointestinal
and heart health. The program lowers the price of these and many
other medications, providing up to an 85 percent savings on
thousands of prescriptions.
The Kroger Rx Savings program offers three tiers of low-cost
medications:
- FREE 30-day/90-day prescriptions
- $3 30-day/$6 90-day prescriptions
- $6 30-day/$12 90-day prescriptions
"Kroger is redefining the customer experience by introducing new
Wellness Your Way offerings like the Kroger Rx Savings Club," said
Colleen Lindholz, president of
Kroger Health. "Kroger operates nearly 2,200 pharmacies, serving
millions of customers across America. Our new partnership with
GoodRx provides cost savings for our customers in a simple,
practical way and enables us to live our Kroger Health vision of
helping people lead healthier lives."
More than 200 million prescriptions are left at pharmacy
counters every year because people cannot afford to purchase them.
The Kroger Rx Savings Club combines the power of Kroger's
nationwide network with GoodRx's pricing technology to create a
customer-first program that addresses the high cost of prescription
drugs.
Under the program, free medications include amlodipine (Norvasc)
for high blood pressure, metformin IR (Glucophage) for diabetes,
sertraline (Zoloft) for mental health, montelukast (Singulair) for
asthma, and more. Additionally, atorvastatin (Lipitor) was recently
ranked as the most popular prescription in America by GoodRx and is
only $6 for a 30-day supply and
$12 for a 90-day supply when using
the program.
Members of the Rx Savings Club will pay an annual fee of
$36 for individuals and $72 for families—up to six people are covered
under one family membership. The program is rolling out across the
country this month.
"Our mission is to help lower the cost of prescriptions in
America, and we are very pleased to have worked with Kroger to
develop such a significant Rx savings program," said Jim Sheninger, GoodRx's Pharmacy Strategy
Officer. "The popularity of the medications included in these
discounts, coupled with the extra low-cost pricing tiers, should
result in meaningful savings for patients and families—savings that
are absolutely critical in this high-priced healthcare
landscape."
The Rx Savings Club is another meaningful initiative introduced
under Kroger's Wellness Your Way program, providing customers with
a variety of personalized health, wellness and nutrition tools,
services and programs.
For more information about the Kroger Rx Savings Club, please
visit www.krogersc.com.
About Kroger:
At The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR), we are dedicated to our Purpose:
to Feed the Human Spirit™. We are nearly half a million
associates who serve nine million customers daily through a
seamless digital shopping experience and 2,800 retail food stores
under a variety of banner names, serving America through food
inspiration and uplift, and creating #ZeroHungerZeroWaste
communities by 2025. To learn more about us, visit
our newsroom and investor relations site.
About GoodRx:
GoodRx is the leading source for prescription and healthcare
savings in America. More than 10 million consumers use GoodRx each
month to find current prices and discounts on their medications.
GoodRx's real-time market-intelligence platform gathers retail
prices and coupons for virtually every pharmacy in America,
providing savings of up to 80%. GoodRx is the #1 medical app on the
iOS and Android app stores and one-third of doctors recommend
GoodRx to their patients. Since 2011, Americans - with and without
health insurance - have saved more than $7
billion using GoodRx. For more, visit www.goodrx.com.
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