Coverage Search vs Formulary Medical
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
Formulary Medical
This application allows users to search through medical formularies in the United States. It helps patients and medical professionals quickly find and compare prescription drug lists for various health plans. Results can be easily shared or copied.
- Search US medical formularies
- Compare prescription drugs
- View formulary documents
- Select health plans
- Share results
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In the US, a formulary is a list of prescription drugs available to enrollees, and a tiered formulary provide financial incentives for patients to select lower-cost drugs. This app helps patients and medical professionals to look up through medical formularies in the United States. You can: - Quickly select and reselect different drugs and health plans on your mobile phone - Double check the selected health plan, by viewing their formulary document inside the app - Share the results using Facebook or Twitter, or copy the result into clipboard, or send an email with the formulary information
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Formulary Medical at 5.0 against Coverage Search's 4.3. Coverage Search's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 19 months) and ratings volume (574 vs 2). 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.
Formulary Medical 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, Formulary Medical every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coverage Search | Formulary Medical |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Every 19 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MMIT | Socal App Solutions |
Customer experience
Coverage Search
Formulary Medical
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
Formulary Medical
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Coverage Search
No in-app purchases
Formulary Medical
No in-app purchases
Questions
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