Enhancing Patient Care and System Revenue: The Case for Onsite Specialty Pharmacies in 340B Hospitals

April 4, 2024340B, 340B ESP, Bedside Prescription Delivery, Compliance, Covered Entities, Drug Manufacturer Restrictions, Meds To Beds, Prescription Discounts, Requirements, Specialty Drugs, Specialty Drugs, Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Pharmacy

Why a Specialty Pharmacy? (Overview) As chronic illnesses become increasingly common in the United States, the number of specialty medications for managing these conditions has skyrocketed. According to a report by The American Hospital Association, the number of Americans with chronic medical conditions will grow by a projected 9% between 2020 and 2030, an increase … Read More

Your Hospital’s 340B Contract Pharmacy Network Is Not What It Should Be.

February 15, 2024340B, Contract Pharmacy, Covered Entities, Drug Manufacturer Restrictions, Patient Eligibility, PBM, Prescription Discounts, Specialty Drugs, Specialty Drugs, Specialty Pharmacy, Specialty Pharmacy, TPA / TPAs, Uncategorized

Based on our experience, it’s a claim we can make with 100% certainty. Since 2019, when ProxsysRx launched its 340B Support Services division, we’ve managed the 340B programs of 18 health systems. Altogether, we’ve generated more than $500 million in 340B Savings and Revenue for those health systems — $98M in the first 10 months … Read More

ProxsysRx’s Meds To Beds Program Makes Immediate Impact Upon Launch At TMH

November 8, 2023340B, Bedside Prescription Delivery, Meds To Beds, Prescription Discounts, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy, Specialty Pharmacy

To date, we’ve published a dozen posts either detailing, or mentioning-in-passing, the clinical and financial benefits a well-run Meds To Beds program offers hospitals and the patients they serve. Which is why we thought it was time to report some of the personal benefits our program delivers — with a handful of stories we’ve heard … Read More

So You Want To Build An Outpatient Pharmacy For Your Hospital? Here’s What’s Involved.

October 9, 2023340B, Bedside Prescription Delivery, Meds To Beds, Meds To Beds, Prescription Discounts, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy

On June 12, ProxsysRx opened its pharmacy in Holyoke Medical Center — a 198-bed independent community hospital in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The pharmacy is currently offering full retail service, and some patient-discharge prescription support (Meds To Beds), but the Employee Prescription plan still has a few hurdles to overcome. It’s a still-unfinished process that began when … Read More

The Prescription-Discount Advantage For Self-Insured Companies. And Their Employees.

May 18, 2023Prescription Discounts, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy

MedServRx: No prescription card saves more. Or delivers more. Not only does MedServRx offer savings of up to 80% (sometimes even more), it gives participating self-insured companies access to prescription-fulfillment data that’s commonly lost when patients use other prescription-discount cards. The MedServRx card, and all of the prescription-data reporting it delivers, are available at no … Read More

ProxsysRx’s MedServRx: The Prescription-Drug Advantage For Patients And Their Providers

March 23, 2023Medicare, PBM, Prescription Discounts, Readmissions, Readmissions Reduction, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy, Value-Based Care

In the fall of 2022, ProxsysRx set-out to extend its pharmacy-based services to hospitals, their affiliated physicians and their patients by offering a multi-benefit prescription savings card. One that helps make unaffordable drugs more affordable, while increasing patients’ access to medications through prescription discounts. Just as importantly, a card that gives participating health systems access … Read More

How Drug Manufacturer Restrictions And PBMs Undermine Hospitals’ 340B Savings And Outpatient-Pharmacy Margins

July 6, 2022340B, Contract Pharmacy, PBM, Prescription Discounts, Requirements, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy

If you’re an eligible hospital with an existing 340B program, you know that your wholly-owned outpatient pharmacy is required to buy non-340B medications at Wholesale Acquisition Cost (WAC) — unless you’ve put it in an LLC, and registered it as a child site, or you’re a Critical Access Hospital, and exempt from the requirement. You’ve … Read More

How Outpatient Pharmacies in Hospitals Impact the True Costs of Readmissions

May 31, 2022Bedside Prescription Delivery, CMS Star Ratings, Medication Compliance, Meds To Beds, Meds To Beds, Prescription Discounts, Readmissions, Readmissions Reduction, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy

How can outpatient pharmacies reduce hospital readmissions? We’ve reported the following statistical finding elsewhere in this forum, but it bears repeating: Up to 70% of all preventable outpatient hospital readmissions are due to prescription non-compliance. Making matters worse for hospitals, the analytics generated by ProxsysRx’s proprietary software indicate that average hospital readmissions from prescription non-compliance … Read More

How Meds To Beds Programs Improve Outpatient Medication Compliance

May 17, 2022Medication Compliance, Meds To Beds, Prescription Discounts, Readmissions, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy

As we’ve reported elsewhere in this forum, statistical evidence indicates that up to 70% of all preventable hospital readmissions are caused by patient prescription non-compliance. What’s more, analytics generated by our own proprietary software further indicate that readmissions from prescription non-compliance are, on average, more expensive than other readmissions — often much more. Why Aren’t … Read More

What Is Value-Based Care, and How Can Your Outpatient Pharmacy Help?

May 12, 2022Medicare, Medication Compliance, Meds To Beds, Pharmacy As A Service (PAAS), Prescription Discounts, Readmissions, Retail / Outpatient Pharmacy, Value-Based Care

One of the Affordable Care Act’s most far-reaching legacies is the ever-increasing impact that Value-Based Care has had on healthcare systems and physicians. In hospitals it’s seen primarily in the form of Per Diems and Readmission Adjustments. For physicians it’s reflected in MIPS (Merit-Based Incentive Payment) scores. What are value-based care programs? According to the … Read More