Humana teams with Mark Cuban's Cost-Plus Drug Company
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Humana teams with Mark Cuban's Cost-Plus Drug Company The partnership for a new employer-based program design will lower patient cost by streamlining patient onboarding and automating benefit checks.
Pharmacy By Susan Morse , Executive Editor | April 29, 2026 | 11:22 AM Photo: Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Images Humana's CenterWell Pharmacy has teamed with the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. on a new employer-based program.Cost Plus Drugs has selected CenterWell Pharmacy as a pharmacy partner. Its digital pharmacy software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform, SwiftyRx, will be used by CenterWell Pharmacy for medication order operations. The partnership will lower patient costs by streamlining patient onboarding, automating benefit checks and reducing cost-to-fill, Humana said. This will be done through the combination of technology, Cost Plus Drugs' low prices, and CenterWell's distribution network and operational efficiency. The SwiftyRx platform is expected to enable CenterWell Pharmacy to offer home delivery pharmacy services to employees enrolled in the Humana Associate Benefit Plan."Today's announcements reflect an aligned mission to redesign access and affordability in a simplified approach to help patients get the medications they need," said Bethanie Stein, Pharm.D., president, Pharmacy at Humana, including CenterWell Pharmacy."Everyone should be able to get safe, affordable medication," said Mark Cuban, co-founder of Cost Plus Drugs. "This collaboration gives Cost Plus Drugs the chance to support more consumers. We're working with CenterWell Pharmacy because we trust the team and like what they're doing in trying to improve prescription affordability." Email the writer: [email protected] Topic: Accounting & Financial Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Operations, Pharmacy