--- title: TIME100 Health: Alex Oshmyansky description: Find out why Alex Oshmyansky is on the TIME100 Health list. canonical: https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6962877/alex-oshmyansky/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2024-05-02T12:18:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:24:50.034Z article:section: Health og:title: Alex Oshmyansky og:description: Find out why Alex Oshmyansky is on the TIME100 Health list. og:url: https://time.com/collections/time100-health/6962877/alex-oshmyansky/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7948e0b63d174d8/698a55eadb298722ae26b942/T100health-2024-Alex-Oshmyansky.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Alex Oshmyansky og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Alex Oshmyansky twitter:description: Find out why Alex Oshmyansky is on the TIME100 Health list. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta7948e0b63d174d8/698a55eadb298722ae26b942/T100health-2024-Alex-Oshmyansky.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- May 02, 2024 # Alex Oshmyansky > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. ## Video: See Everyone on the TIME100 Health list [Watch (HLS stream): See Everyone on the TIME100 Health list](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bYIwjCx8.m3u8) (1:45)  _Published 2024-05-02_ by [Alice Park](https://time.com/author/alice-park/) ## Alice Park Senior Correspondent  Alex Oshmyansky Alex OshmyanskyCourtesy Cost Plus Drugs Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he had created in 2018 that made drugs and sold them at cost. Intrigued, Cuban responded in five minutes, and was quickly drawn in by Oshmyansky’s passion and outrage over how consumers were getting “ripped off.” Cuban provided an initial investment and his name, and Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. was launched in 2022\. The name is as transparent as the company’s mission—which involves selling more than 2,500 generic medications at cost, plus 15% to cover shipping and handling fees. How does Cost Plus Drug Co. sell a popular statin for $5 a month when it costs about $200 a month everywhere else? By simply going straight to the drugmakers, and bypassing the opaque system of middlemen who purchase from manufacturers at inflated negotiated prices, and resell them to hospitals and pharmacies at exorbitant markups in order to make a profit. Senators are asking the same question and last November requested that the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general investigate price-setting practices by specialty pharmacies for generic drugs. “I like to think that we had some role in pushing the narrative that everyone benefits from transparency,” says Oshmyansky, founder and CEO of Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. Buoyed by the millions who now rely on Cost Plus to fill their prescriptions, the company in March began manufacturing its own generic medications from a facility in Dallas. His initial outrage is now gaining institutional momentum as drugmakers become increasingly frustrated with shouldering all of the blame for out-of-control drug prices. “If there is an opaque market, then the winners are not the buyers or the sellers but the people who broker information in between, and that’s what we see happening in spades with drug pricing,” he says. “There is a tipping point in the amount of frustration in the industry, from both buyers \[patients\] and sellers \[drugmakers\]. 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