Technical guides on NCPDP standards, claims processing, and building modern pharmacy software.
Verify patient insurance eligibility in real-time with a simple JSON API call. Check coverage, copay tiers, and formulary status across 1,300+ PBMs.
Follow a pharmacy claim from prescription intake through switch routing to PBM adjudication. Every step in the NCPDP claims workflow explained.
What BIN, PCN, and Group ID numbers mean on a pharmacy insurance card, how they route claims to the right PBM, and how to use them in your software.
End-to-end technical guide to building a pharmacy discount card program. BIN/PCN setup, claims routing, pricing engines, and modern API integration.
Side-by-side comparison of pharmacy claims integration options. Features, pricing, setup time, and developer experience for each approach.
What BIN, PCN, and Group numbers are, why lookups matter, and how to verify pharmacy benefits with the E1 eligibility API.
Guide for POS and PMS vendors on integrating pharmacy claims processing. NCPDP translation, switch architecture, and the API middleware approach.
End-to-end guide on submitting pharmacy claims programmatically. From traditional NCPDP to a single curl command with Starlight API.
Why NCPDP's binary pipe-delimited format is holding pharmacy software back, and how Starlight translates it to clean JSON.
Step-by-step guide to integrating with a pharmacy switch. Architecture, authentication, error handling, and production readiness.
What E1 eligibility checks are, why they matter, and how to verify pharmacy benefits with a single API call.
When and why pharmacy claims get reversed, the B2 transaction workflow, and how to submit reversals via API.
Comparing traditional NCPDP integration with modern REST/JSON APIs: developer experience, time-to-integration, and total cost.
The invisible infrastructure that routes every pharmacy claim in America, and why it matters for developers building pharmacy software.