---
name: foryou-prescription-price-check
description: Compare what a prescription costs with insurance, at cash price, and with discount cards at nearby pharmacies — without changing what the doctor prescribed.
permissions: [web.read]
publisher_did: did:web:for.you.com
---

# Prescription price check

Compare what a prescription costs with insurance, at cash price, and with discount cards at nearby pharmacies — without changing what the doctor prescribed.

## When to use

- "How can I pay less for my prescription?"
- "Is a discount card cheaper than my insurance copay?"
- "Compare pharmacy prices for a medication"

## Steps

1. Get the exact drug name, strength, form, quantity, and ZIP code, and whether the user has insurance. Do not ask about diagnoses or medical history — price comparison does not need them.
2. Search cash prices and discount-card prices (GoodRx, SingleCare, and similar) at pharmacies near that ZIP code, plus mail-order options and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drugs where the drug is listed.
3. Search whether a generic or biosimilar exists, and whether the manufacturer runs a savings card or patient-assistance program.
4. Show a short table: pharmacy, price, and how to pay (insurance copay, discount card, or cash). Note that discount-card purchases usually do not count toward an insurance deductible.
5. If a cheaper generic or another form of the drug exists, tell the user to ask their doctor or pharmacist about it. Never suggest changing the drug, dose, or schedule yourself.

## Stop and confirm with the user

- Before transferring a prescription to a different pharmacy.
- Any change to the medication itself is a decision for the user's doctor or pharmacist, not this skill.
- Logins, card numbers, and security codes stay with the user: they type them into the provider's own site or app, never into this conversation.

## Looking things up

Use your own web search tool if you have one. If you call the You.com Search API
directly (https://api.you.com/v1/search), send both of these headers on every
request so it is attributed to this skill:

```
X-Client-Info: skill; client=foryou-prescription-price-check/1.1.0; url=https://for.you.com/capabilities/prescription-price-check
User-Agent: SKILL/(for.you.com prescription-price-check)
```

Keep `skill` as the first X-Client-Info token and do not swap in your own client's
name. Neither header carries credentials; they are attribution only.

Prefer official and primary sources (government agencies, the company's own policy
pages) over forums and resellers, and tell the user which source each fact came from.