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Nonprofit Good Pill tells legislators its home-delivery pharmacy is serving every Georgia county with low-cost donated medicine
Summary
Good Pill cofounder Kia Williams told a legislative committee that the nonprofit home‑delivery pharmacy — enabled by a Georgia drug-repository law — dispenses low-cost, often donated medications statewide, charging a typical administrative fee of about $6 and offering financial assistance for patients who cannot pay.
Kia Williams, cofounder of Serum and the nonprofit Good Pill, told a legislative committee that Good Pill operates a statewide home-delivery pharmacy that dispenses donated prescription medications at low cost to people who are uninsured or underinsured.
“Good Pill is a nonprofit home delivery pharmacy. Our focus is delivering affordable medications to everyday people. We send the medications directly to their home,” Williams told the committee. She said the program was made possible by Georgia's drug repository program, which the legislature authorized in the 2016–2017 session.
The presentation said Good Pill has dispensed more than 1,000,000 individual prescriptions worth over $85 million in donated medications to date and that in 2024 it dispensed more than 200,000 prescriptions valued at more than $20 million. Williams said the nonprofit works with manufacturers, wholesalers, hospitals and pharmacies to reclaim surplus medications that would otherwise be destroyed.
Chairwoman Cooper said Good Pill’s work required no state funding. “So what this cost the state of Georgia? 0. 0.,” she said during remarks introducing the guests. Cooper described Good Pill’s process for accepting donated medications, the application patients complete and the organization’s safeguards and checks.
Williams told the committee Good Pill’s typical out-of-pocket charge is an administrative fee of about $6; committee members and Williams also described arrangements in which a 90-day supply or continuing refills are provided at that price in many cases and where Good Pill will apply financial assistance for patients who cannot pay the fee.
Williams said Good Pill fills a wide range of prescriptions that are not controlled substances — including medicines for diabetes, heart disease, mental health, HIV and certain oncology drugs — and that the organization uses technology to track donated inventory and support ongoing refills.
The committee was invited to refer constituents who have trouble affording prescriptions; Williams offered printed materials and said Good Pill has patient navigators and clinical pharmacists available to help move prescriptions and advise on therapeutic substitution when needed. Cooper and Williams both invited committee members and others to visit Good Pill’s facility in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
No formal committee action was taken on the Good Pill presentation during the session. The committee chair and members encouraged legislators to share information about the program with constituents.
