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Surescripts
Your partner for the prescription journey
On the path from prescribing to adherence, a lot can happen. As the nation’s most powerful health intelligence network, Surescripts has unmatched insight into patient drop-off and delays across the prescription journey—starting at the moment of prescribing. But it’s not just about visibility. We can also proactively remove barriers to access so patients start therapy faster and get the clinical benefits their providers intend.
Pinpoint where patients drop off therapy.
Together, we can find and fix barriers to patient access—from the moment of prescribing through dispensing and pickup.
27% of prescriptions never reach patients.1
Prescriptions requiring prior authorization take four days longer to fill on average.2
Eliminate friction points that cause delays and disruption.
Surescripts can help automate prior authorization and verify benefits in seconds for the patients you serve.
When prior authorizations are automated with Surescripts and all criteria are met, the average approval is delivered in under 20 seconds.3
Electronic Benefit Verification is saving patient access teams thousands of hours per week.4
Solutions
Improve patient access & time to therapy
Overcome patient access challenges with timely benefit insights that get patients started on treatment sooner.
Intelligent Prior Authorization
Anticipate and overcome prior authorization barriers to accelerate determinations for your therapies.
A powerful partnership
A single, direct connection to health plans and PBMs nationwide
Optimize speed and efficiency with accurate data from health plans and PBMs.
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Leading speed and reliability
Surescripts delivers transactions in milliseconds across a network with a 99.998% average uptime.5
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Vast network
The Surescripts Master Patient Index includes data for virtually every insured American.6
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Find out more about how we help life sciences companies
What does Surescripts offer life sciences companies?
Surescripts integrates tools, data and insights for life sciences companies to inform and accelerate decisions, including timely benefit data, streamlined prior authorization workflows and prescription-level intelligence.
Who are Surescripts’ life sciences solutions built for?
Surescripts solutions are built for life sciences companies looking to support patient access, speed time to therapy, reduce therapy abandonment and improve commercial success.
How is Surescripts’ approach different from simply digitizing prior authorization?
Surescripts solutions automate prior authorization by combining clinical insights and benefit intelligence, rather than just converting manual work into electronic forms.
Keep pace with healthcare innovation
- Surescripts analysis of e-prescriptions sent to fill-reporting pharmacies in January 2026.
- Surescripts analysis of new prescriptions in January 2026 found a median time to fill of 1 day for prescriptions not flagged for prior authorization and 5 days for prescriptions flagged for prior authorization.
- Median approval time 18 seconds when prior authorizations are automated with Surescripts. Surescripts, “Annual Impact Report 2025,” March 2026, p. 18.
- Surescripts estimates a potential time savings of 16 minutes per electronic transaction. Surescripts processed 21,197 successful Electronic Benefit Verification transactions weekly as of March 2026.
- Surescripts, “Annual Impact Report 2025,” p. 6.
- Surescripts, “Annual Impact Report 2025,” p. 6.