Mark Cuban Pharmacy Helped Brandi Glanville Cut Medication Costs Amid Facial Disfigurement Fight
Mark Cuban Pharmacy has become part of Brandi Glanville’s effort to bring down the cost of medication tied to a painful health crisis. The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star has been dealing with severe facial disfigurement, swelling, speech problems, and tooth loss linked to a ruptured breast implant. Her medical bills reached about $200, 000, and the pricing support from Mark Cuban Pharmacy entered the picture as she worked through a costly search for answers.
How Mark Cuban Pharmacy entered the case
Rachel Strauss, CEO of healthcare consulting firm PBM Princess, LLC, has been helping Glanville navigate medication pricing and future treatment costs through Mark Cuban’s Cost Plus Drugs company. Cuban said Strauss turned to the company because it is the only truly transparent pricing pharmacy, adding that its prices do not change by city, state, or date. In his explanation, he said the pharmacy shows its actual cost, then its mark up, then a shipping fee, with no hidden layers.
Glanville’s health problems began years ago with symptoms she described as brain fog, joint pain, and facial disfigurement. She later learned that a right breast implant had ruptured and leaked silicone, which clogged lymph nodes and led to the facial changes she has described publicly. Her search for a diagnosis took her to 21 doctors.
Mark Cuban Pharmacy and the medication price gap
Strauss said she reviewed Glanville’s medications line by line and found major month-to-month differences for the same drugs. She said some medicines that cost about $29 to $30 through other channels were available for about $6 to $8 through Mark Cuban Pharmacy, with some savings reaching 70% to 80%.
She also said the effort is now focused on seeing whether money is owed back to Glanville. Strauss said Glanville trusted the pharmacy side to protect her interests, but the pricing she found showed that was not happening. The point, she said, was that patients can move prescriptions to Mark Cuban Pharmacy quickly and potentially avoid large out-of-pocket losses.
What Cuban and Glanville are saying
Cuban said he started the company because he wanted to change healthcare and the price of medications. He said a drug can cost $20 at one pharmacy and $500 at another, and he blamed greed for that spread. He also said the company publishes a price list and charges the same price to every customer.
Glanville said on her podcast that her medical fight cost her about $200, 000. She said she had insurance, but her experience still forced her to pay out of pocket for specialists, including infectious disease doctors and rheumatologists. She also said she should have replaced her implants years earlier, but did not.
What the medical background shows
The Food and Drug Administration issued a report in 2011 on the safety of silicone breast implants. The report said one in five patients may need some kind of revision procedure after 10 years because of complications such as scarring or broken implants. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons says patients do not automatically need to replace implants every 10 years if they are properly monitored.
That context matters in Glanville’s case because the health problems, diagnostic delay, and medication costs all collided at once. Mark Cuban Pharmacy became one part of the response, but it is not the whole story.
What’s next
Glanville said she was feeling much better as 2026 approached, but her recovery has come after a difficult stretch of illness and financial strain. The next developments will likely center on whether additional medication savings can be recovered and how far the pricing review goes. For now, Mark Cuban Pharmacy remains a key part of the effort to ease the burden left by the ruptured implant and the long search for treatment.
