How GoodRx Helps You Take Control Of Your Healthcare Through Every Stage of Motherhood

Americans face the highest prescription prices in the world, especially when it comes to family planning and raising kids. The rising cost of prescriptions can make it harder to get the care you need, whether you are undergoing fertility treatments, striving to stay healthy during pregnancy, or managing cold and flu season with little ones at home.

As women face high prescription prices, they often don’t know exactly how much they will be paying, and many don’t realize that prices aren’t the same everywhere. Prescription prices can vary wildly from pharmacy to pharmacy, sometimes by as much as $100, and the costs can add up quickly.

GoodRx, a leading prescription savings platform, makes prioritizing and accessing maternal healthcare easier at every stage. Women can comparison shop for medications with just a few clicks and access savings of up to 80% on common brand name and generic medications. Less money spent on healthcare and medication is more money in your pocket for life’s other expenses.

We spoke with Dr. Patricia Pinto-Garcia, medical editor for GoodRx about how GoodRx can support you throughout motherhood.

“Managing your reproductive health can be stressful. Whether you are trying to get pregnant or avoid pregnancy, finances shouldn’t have to add to that stress. GoodRx helps women navigate the finances of family planning from preventing pregnancy until menopause and beyond,” Dr. Pinto-Garcia says.

Fertility treatments can be overwhelming – and expensive – but you’re not alone.

“Undergoing fertility treatments can be a very challenging process as women navigate not only the financial burdens, but the emotional ones as well,” says Pinto-Garcia, who underwent IVF on her journey to becoming a mom. A single IVF cycle can cost upwards of $30,000 and many women need multiple cycles to conceive. Furthermore, those treatments may not be fully covered by insurance.

“In my personal experience with IVF, the process makes you sometimes feel so vulnerable and like there’s so much out of your control. However, knowing that you can use GoodRx so you’re able to afford all these medications — wherever you are in your reproductive journey — helps you feel like you have more control over your health,” says Pinto-Garcia.

Medication discounts through GoodRx are available for each phase of the process: suppression (e.g., Fyremadel and Leuprolide), stimulation (e.g., Clomid and Letrozole), triggering (e.g., Novarel and Ovidrel) and implantation (e.g., Crinone and Endometrin). With savings of up to 43% off fertility treatments based on the best available GoodRx price, it’s a serious game-changer for helping manage the high costs that women face when trying to expand their families.

Throughout the IVF process GoodRx also provides people with information to be their own best advocates. The GoodRx Fertility Hub is an online resource designed to support people with credible, timely, and actionable information about the fertility process — covering topics such as IVF timelines, treatment options, and questions on medications.

“Even with my medical training, going through IVF led to so many questions. In our content, we make a very targeted effort to explain to people all the costs involved in IVF and how to prepare yourself,” says Pinto-Garcia. This content can help women fill knowledge gaps, providing another trusted resource for the many questions that will come up when considering IVF.

Pregnancy can change everything – your body, your health concerns, and even your prescribed medications.

Pregnancy comes with significant changes in your body and frequent medical appointments. As a result, you may need to start taking different prescription medications and supplements. GoodRx provides savings on a wide range of medications women are prescribed during pregnancy, so you can focus on staying healthy instead of worrying about how much your medications cost. For example, women can comparison shop for insulin for gestational diabetes or beta blockers for high blood pressure.

Plus, if you’re not sure which medications — like cold medicines or antibiotics — you can take during pregnancy, GoodRx can help.

Whether it’s your first time being pregnant or your fifth, “We have a great content library about pregnancy,” says Pinto-Garcia. “We focus on giving people facts that they can use in real-time. When you have questions about pregnancy, you can easily end up down a rabbit hole on the internet. We try to simplify it for people. In those moments when you have questions, you just want answers, and you want them to be correct. So, we make an effort to link to our sources and use the latest research to inform our content. If you come to us, you’ll get a straight answer that’s 100% factual.”

Raising healthy children requires lifelong support and trusted resources.

As you raise your kids, GoodRx helps moms make informed decisions and provides significant savings on medications for the whole family. It can even help with cost savings on over-the-counter medications.

“Personally, my son uses over-the-counter medication for allergies. You can ask your doctor to prescribe these medications instead of buying the over-the-counter versions, which allows you to then use GoodRx for additional savings,” says Pinto-Garcia.

In those early years of parenthood, you can also find content about children’s health you can trust, exploring topics like age-appropriate dosages, childhood illnesses, growth and development, and much more. With an easy to use website, busy parents can look up health and medication information, and an app makes it seemless to save money at the pharmacy counter.

“Our children’s health content is all written by pediatricians and then medically reviewed by another physician. There are very few online resources where two board-certified doctors review the content. That’s how you know it’s content you can trust, and that’s very valuable. As a pediatrician and a mom myself, I know parents want the answers fast,” says Pinto-Garcia.

Motherhood is a beautiful, complex, and challenging journey. With GoodRx by your side, you can make better healthcare choices for you and your family, access significant savings, and find the information and support you need through all the phases of motherhood.

“GoodRx gives you less to worry about when life throws so many obstacles in your way,” says Pinto-Garcia.

Check out GoodRx’s Fertility Hub to find support wherever you are in your fertility journey and get information about common concerns, treatment options, and more.