Patients Win with Prescription Price Transparency

Patients deserve better odds—and 2026 is the year the tables turn. Americans are all-in on a healthcare transformation where data, interoperability and partnership finally stack the deck in their favor.

The Medication Affordability Crisis

The prescription experience has remained largely unchanged for decades—clinicians prescribe, patients go to the pharmacy and only then do they discover the cost of their medication.

A New Model: Intelligence Meets Action

Improving patient experience isn't about incremental improvements to a broken model. It's about fundamentally reimagining processes. And what healthcare process couldn’t be improved with cost transparency?

In 2026, Surescripts is debuting a price transparency tool that offers a proactive patient experience, so patients start and stay on therapies without cost surprises or friction at the pharmacy counter.

Introducing Script Corner: Personalized Price Transparency at the Point of Care

Patients searching for greater visibility into prescription pricing and savings options will find the new patient experience product Script Corner^TM a sure bet.

Script Corner gives patients personalized pricing and pharmacy options at the point of prescribing, so they can get the right medication at the right price from the pharmacy of their choice.

How Data, Interoperability and Partnership Pay Off in a Better Patient Experience

Script Corner is a gamechanger that works thanks to three interconnected pillars:

1. Data That Drives Decisions

   Patient-specific information at the point of prescribing changes everything. When prescribers and patients can see actual costs and coverage details for each patient's unique benefit plan—not generic pricing estimates—everyone can make informed decisions at the point of care.

2. Interoperability at Scale

   Interoperability is no longer a distant goal, it's operational reality. Nationwide connection means that benefit and pricing data can flow seamlessly from health plans and pharmacy benefit managers directly into clinical workflows. This trusted data fabric makes personalized price transparency possible at the scale required to meaningfully move the needle on national adherence rates. Note, Script Corner will be piloted by two health systems and expand to more in 2026.

3. Partnership Across the Ecosystem

   No single organization can solve the healthcare affordability crisis alone. Success requires unprecedented collaboration between health systems, health plans, PBMs, pharmacies and technology vendors all working toward the shared goal of improving patient outcomes. By aligning care providers and breaking down data silos, the industry can finally address cost barriers before they derail treatment.

Script Corner creates a different compound effect—one where better prescribing decisions can lead to higher adherence for patients, which leads to better disease control, reduces acute care utilization, and can significantly improve long-term outcomes.

The paradigm shift means the odds are now in the patients' favor, and the impact is profound: small changes at the point of prescribing can prevent exponentially larger costs downstream.

Patient Experience Wins with Script Corner

Script Corner is the only solution that will give patients instant visibility into the cost of their prescription at their chosen pharmacy. Armed with a full deck of choices, patients can avoid prescription abandonment and switching therapies.

As we enter 2026, the opportunity before us is clear. We have the data. We have the interoperability. We have the partnerships. Now we are acting and empowering patients with transparency, choice and affordability.

That is how we increase the odds for a winning patient experience.