India, Feb. 10 -- The Trump administration has launched TrumpRx, a new online initiative aimed at lowering prescription drug costs by allowing patients to purchase select medications directly from pharmaceutical manufacturers at discounted cash prices.

TrumpRx is not an online pharmacy and does not dispense medications itself. Instead, it operates as a pricing and referral platform, listing discounted cash prices and redirecting users to participating drugmakers' websites to complete purchases.

"It's a portal where someone can check if they can find a cheaper price, direct-to-consumer, from a drug manufacturer," Kaye Pestaina, vice president and director of KFF's patient and consumer protections program, told CBS News. "It's not a store...