COLUMBIA, Mo. – Paytient has partnered with Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co., to give employees at nearly 7,000 employers the ability to effortlessly pay less for care.
Paytient members can now see transparent, low-cost cash prices for medications in their app, making it easier to save money and time. Members can also choose to spread their out-of-pocket costs over time with no interest or fees.
"This is what a human-centered healthcare shopping experience should look like—simple, transparent, and accessible," said Alex Oshmyansky, CEO of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company. "People deserve to know the lowest price for their medication, right at their fingertips, and have the flexibility to pay for it however they want. And when that lowers the cost of care overall, employers benefit too."
Paytient's own self-funded health plan illustrates the opportunity.
"In 2024, our employees filled more than 1,000 generic prescriptions," said Brian Whorley, founder and CEO of Paytient. "On average, each employee paid $14 out of pocket, while our health plan paid another $27 per script. Many of those medications could have been purchased through Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs for less—even with shipping. We consider that $27 per script as our employees' money that we could have been saved and I much rather have paid it to our employees instead of sending it out the door for overpriced care. The point is this: when the health plan overpays for care, you're wasting your employees' hard-earned compensation and you're giving it to businesses who are price gouging your people in a moment of need. I'll rage against that machine all day, every day. This is about treating our employees' compensation with care and respect, and we do that by simply giving people an easier way to pay a fair market price."
Together, Paytient and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs are working to enable employers and employees to pay less for care - one prescription at a time.
"The missing innovation in healthcare is the one that helps more people pay lower prices. It's the prices we pay—and how we pay them— that matter to most of us on Main Street," Whorley added. "The good news is that more people, and their employers, are waking up to the savings, privacy, and honesty of simply paying cash."
