CVD Risk Estimator Plus vs Coverage Search
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CVD Risk Estimator Plus
This clinical decision support app provides comprehensive cardiovascular disease risk assessments for clinicians. It unifies two major risk calculators, incorporating traditional ASCVD modeling with modern kidney and metabolic health measures for personalized patient care.
- Combines ASCVD and PREVENT calculators
- Calculates 10-year and lifetime CVD risk
- Incorporates kidney and metabolic health
- Provides risk category classification
- Exports results for documentation
- Includes clinician and patient resources
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This clinical decision-support app is intended for use by healthcare professionals and unifies two cardiovascular prevention tools: the 2013 ACC/AHA Pooled Cohort Equations (previously known as the ASCVD Risk Estimator) and the American Heart Association’s PREVENT™ Calculator. Combining traditional ASCVD risk modeling with modern cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic (CKM)-inclusive risk equations, CVD Risk Estimator Plus supports comprehensive, personalized cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment and clinician-guided decision-making. The results and recommendations provided by this application are intended to inform but do not replace clinical judgment. Therapeutic options should be individualized and determined after discussion between the patient and their care provider. CVD Risk Estimator Plus computes risk estimates using: • 2013 ASCVD Pooled Cohort Equations (PCE), which calculate 10-year and lifetime risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease using age, sex, race, blood pressure, cholesterol profile, diabetes status, and smoking status. • 2023 PREVENT™ Equations, which estimate 10- and 30-year risk for total CVD, ASCVD, and heart failure (HF), incorporating kidney and metabolic health measures such as BMI and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and supporting optional predictors including urine albumin creatinine ratio (UACR), hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and social deprivation index (SDI). Clinicians can toggle between Pooled Cohort and PREVENT™ risk trajectories to support guideline-aligned prevention discussions. This clinical decision support app provides: • Risk category classification (low, borderline, intermediate, high). • Personalized guidance informed by published guidelines, including statin therapy considerations, lifestyle interventions, and risk-enhancing clinical factors. • Export functionality supporting print and email of results for documentation and patient communication. • Resources page with related tools and informational materials for clinicians and patients, including links to source guidelines and reference documents.
Coverage Search
Access up-to-date drug coverage and restriction details for millions of health plans and PBMs. Quickly understand how medications are covered to guide prescribing decisions and identify preferred alternatives for patients. Information is updated nightly for accuracy.
- Drug coverage and restriction information
- Search health plans and PBMs
- View detailed coverage by plan
- Identify drug restriction criteria
- Compare coverage across drug forms
- Save favorite plans and products
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Your single source of reliable and current drug coverage and restriction information. “Need to know if that drug is covered? Are you a prescribing doc and want to select a preferred drug for your patient?” MMIT’s drug status information is updated nightly, ensuring you have the data points needed to guide prescribing decisions for your patients. Quickly understand how every health plan and PBM covers all FDA approved medications in your geography. App of the Week by Drug Store News | Top 50 Healthcare apps for Clinicians and Consumers to Know by Becker's Healthcare “Clearly the best choice in taking out the guess work of selecting medications and offering alternative choices for your patients. It has clearly reduced staff time getting authorizations… one of the few solutions out of this morass and does a better job than our EHR system or anything else I’ve seen.” “This is a must have for primary care providers.” Plan Features • Over 6,500 health plans representing over 98% of U.S. insured lives • Search commercial, Medicare Part D, State & Managed Medicaid and health exchange plans • Includes comprehensive set of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBM) and health plans • Drill down to the plan level to view detailed coverage information • Review in-depth restriction criteria for an initial group of Payers and PBMs that are working with MMIT • View differences in coverage across various forms and strengths of drugs • Save frequently accessed plans to your “Favorites” list Drug Features • View drug access across location and channel by percent of covered lives • Search coverage information by various forms of a drug • Quickly lookup alternative drug’s coverage information • Save frequently accessed products to your “Favorites” list Search Features • Enable Location Services to populate your plan list automatically • Quickly search by health plan or PBM name • Sort results by health plan name, covered lives, or coverage status
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CVD Risk Estimator Plus at 5.0 against Coverage Search's 4.3. Coverage Search's advantage is review sentiment (71% vs 32%) and ratings volume (574 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CVD Risk Estimator Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coverage Search has 574 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 32% of CVD Risk Estimator Plus's written reviews are positive against 71% of Coverage Search's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
CVD Risk Estimator Plus ships an update every 4 months, Coverage Search every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 19, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CVD Risk Estimator Plus | Coverage Search |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (574 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.6% of reviews | 71.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 574 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | American College of Cardiology | MMIT |
Customer experience
CVD Risk Estimator Plus
Coverage Search
Bugs and requests
CVD Risk Estimator Plus
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Coverage Search
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes during data download
- Crashes when changing search parameters
- Outdated formulary information not updated in a timely manner
Requested features
4 requests- Add Medicare Part B coverage information
- Provide plan details like number of covered lives
- Include ICD-10 codes for easier diagnosis-based searches
- Allow searching by BIN, PCN, and Group numbers
In-app purchases
CVD Risk Estimator Plus
No in-app purchases
Coverage Search
No in-app purchases
Questions
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