What Are Drug Classes?
Medications are broken down by category and class. A drug class is a set of medications and compounds that have similar chemical structures and a related mechanism of action to treat the same disease state.
In simpler terms, a drug class is a group of drugs that are similar in their makeup and is aimed at treating one closely related condition or ailment. For example, the antidepressants drug class is a class of drugs that are similar in their chemical structures and aimed at treated various mental health and wellness conditions.
Why Is This Information Valuable?
Insurance companies work with pharmacy benefit managers to create a list of covered medications for you. Whether it’s Medicare Part D or private insurance, often times these medications are quite expensive and have a very high copay or coinsurance.
Having multiple, lower cost prescription drug options at your fingertips could help you save hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year! The lists provided are only ORAL medications, that is, those medications taken by mouth.
Yes. All the medications listed are available by prescription only. Our databases do not include any over the counter medications.
Yes. If you are being treated for one of the indications, you are likely being prescribed one of the medications listed. By 2018, over 13% of Americans over 18 years old have been reported as taking an antidepressant in the past thirty days. Similarly, according to the American Diabetes Association, almost 30 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes, with a staggering 86 million living with pre-diabetes.
Then you’ve come to the right place! While we cannot possibly know what drugs are covered by your insurance company, and therefore cannot guarantee that the best medication for you will be covered, we can guarantee that you will have a list of every drug in that drug class! You can take this information to your doctor and/or insurance company and explore all the options available to you.
Depending on the indication for which you are being treated, we have all the available oral antidepressants and oral diabetes medications at your fingertips. While we can’t give an exact number of medications in each drug class that would apply to you specifically, we can tell you that you will every option that is currently available to consider. Your prescriber will be able to guide you as to the treatment option that is best suited for you.
Possibly. You should crosscheck our databases with your insurance to ensure a lower copay/coinsurance and work with your prescriber to find a treatment option that is the most cost effective for you and also suited for your specific condition.
Our Drug Class Databases are downloadable Excel and PDF files. They are sent to you via a download link in an email once you complete your purchase. Please be sure that you have a way to view them. Our clients are allowed to download our products for up to three months after their initial purchase date, and up to three times. We offer this as we understand sometimes files can get lost or accidentally deleted.
We do not offer physical, printed lists.
We do not offer refunds, all sales are final. Because of the digital nature of our products, there is simply no recourse for us to recover what our clients have downloaded.
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