Breaking Health

Episode: 160 - A. J. Loiacono on Capital Rx’s Mission to Remodel the American Drug Pricing System as a Tech-Based Pharmacy Benefit Manager


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AJ Loiacono’s experience in supply chain consulting for pharmaceutical manufacturing afforded him a world-class education in supply chain logistics, drug pricing, and software implementation. However, it wasn’t until he worked with healthcare payers that he realized the glaring problems in the U.S. drug pricing system and that pharmacy benefit managers retained much of the control and profit. He says, “The reason why our drug pricing is the way it is today… is because no one has either had the resource, bravery, or perseverance to stand up and say, ‘This is what’s wrong, and we’re going to fix it instead of profiting off of the system.’” 

Looking to disrupt the status quo, Loiacono founded Capital Rx. As one of the fastest growing healthtech companies in America, Capital Rx reconstructs prescription pricing and puts savings back in the patient’s hands. Loiacono speaks with host Steve Krupa about his desire to simplify drug pricing and increase transparency, how Capital Rx’s novel cloud-native enterprise pharmacy platform, JUDI, reduces labor costs by up to 80%, how they maintain a 99.5% retention rate with their clients, and why their books have demonstrated a negative drug trend for the past three years. 

Links from this episode:  
HealthEdge 
Capital Rx
JUDI Enterprise Pharmacy Platform 
Capital Rx Facebook 

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