Coverage Search vs DERMNATION
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
DERMNATION
Navigate a virtual conference with this app. Access your schedule, review event materials, and connect with others through a social feed. Stay organized and engaged throughout the conference experience.
- Virtual conference navigation
- Agenda management
- Review event materials
- Social feed engagement
- Event organization
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The DERMNATION App will be your guide to the virtual conference events. Check your agenda, review materials, engage on the social feed, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DERMNATION at 5.0 against Coverage Search's 4.3. DERMNATION also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Coverage Search's advantage is ratings volume (574 vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
DERMNATION 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Coverage Search ships an update every 2 months, DERMNATION monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coverage Search | DERMNATION |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (574 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 574 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | MMIT | BlueprintNYC |
Customer experience
Coverage Search
DERMNATION
Bugs and 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
DERMNATION
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Coverage Search
No in-app purchases
DERMNATION
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Coverage Search free?
Is DERMNATION free?
Which has better reviews, Coverage Search or DERMNATION?
Do Coverage Search or DERMNATION have ads?
Which is updated more often, Coverage Search or DERMNATION?
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