How can an Armada Health Care member pharmacy help my practice?

Running a practice in a complex specialty is difficult enough without having to worry about stocking large inventories of very expensive biotherapies and negatively impacting cash flow.  Many specialists that routinely prescribe injectable and infusible medications have had these problems alleviated by working with a specialty pharmacy.

Specialty pharmacies are not only experts at dispensing these complex medications.  In fact, most specialty pharmacies also provide specialty wholesaling to practices and clinics for patient administration by the physician.  There is probably an Armada health Care specialty pharmacy nearby in your community.

Local presence is another key differentiator for specialty pharmacies.  Not only are they able to supply the medications that you need, they can also seamlessly support all the other medication requirements that your patients may have.  This continuity is something that physicians can’t obtain through their wholesaler.

Also, medications may not be available in single unit quantities.  In this event, a practice may need to order a minimum quantity that may be significantly more than can be used in a timely fashion before the residual inventory expires.  If small quantities are available, they are often priced significantly higher eroding margin opportunity.

Armada Health Care Member Pharmacies

Specialty pharmacies that are members in the Armada Health Care group purchasing organization offer significant advantages to physician practices and clinics.  They commonly stock large quantities of high-cost injectable, infusible and oral medications for a large variety of chronic illnesses. Since they routinely fill single unit of order quantities, they are set up to efficiently – and economically – ship small quantities on demand.  Depending on their location, you could even benefit from same day delivery.

The clinical pharmacists at Armada member specialty pharmacies are proficient in every aspect of these complex therapies, including side-effects, drug interactions, issues related to therapy administration, and more.  They are available to provide professional consultation whenever you may need.  Since they can also provide all the self-administered medications that you may prescribe, these pharmacists also have a total picture of the patients’ medication profiles.  They can track patient progress on therapy and identify issues before they become problems.

Please contact us at Armada Health Care to obtain the location of a member specialty pharmacy serving your community.