Healthcare DIVE September 12, 2019
Dive Brief:
- Surescripts is terminating its contract with third-party data startup ReMy Health, which is used by Amazon-owned PillPack, alleging fraudulent activity, the company said this week.
- Surescripts, which handles the vast majority on online prescriptions in the U.S., said ReMy Health requested not only patient medication history but also health insurance and prescription price information, and included National Provider Identifier numbers for physicians who did not have a relationship with the patient, “effectively concealing who was requesting the sensitive patient information.”
- The move is the latest in ongoing tensions between Amazon and healthcare giant CVS, which, along with Cigna’s Express Scripts and two trade groups, owns Surescripts. Amazon quietly rolled out direct-to-consumer marketing of PillPack’s at-home prescription drug...
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