Partnering for Healthier Patient Populations

As the leader in global pharmaceutical product sourcing and distribution, AmerisourceBergen understands the importance of product access. Quality care requires access to affordable and effective healthcare products. We provide 95 percent of hospitals with branded, generic and specialty pharmaceuticals. We source more than 50,000 items from more than 1,500 manufacturers, including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, specialty and biosimilar medicines, over the counter remedies, home health products and medical devices. We continuously invest in our operational capabilities and logistics infrastructure to ensure that our customers can access products through a secure and efficient distribution channel. Our leadership in this area of healthcare delivery puts us in the best possible position to help improve product access across the healthcare supply chain.

Sourcing and distribution is only part of the value that AmerisourceBergen brings to the healthcare community. Because we understand that access is being challenged across the healthcare delivery system, we’ve integrated our global sourcing and distribution services with innovative solutions that place our customers in the best position to capitalize on the changes in healthcare delivery. For our health system customers, that means solutions that result in greater financial performance and enhanced patient care.

In today’s dynamic healthcare environment, AmerisourceBergen knows health system executives are looking for ways to improve financial performance without compromising quality care. From 340B and specialty pharmacy solutions to contract pricing and consulting and patient assistance programs, we equip health systems with financial performance solutions that help you reduce costs, increase cash flow and ensure regulatory compliance. Our professionally trained consultants have decades of healthcare experience, and we support more than 350 health systems nationwide with pharmacy-dedicated expertise. As the largest and most experienced provider of 340B solutions in the nation, we leverage proven processes and best practices to ensure audit readiness, decrease outpatient medication costs by up to 10 percent and deliver returns on drug purchasing that is up to three times the investment. In addition, our specialty pharmaceutical purchasing solutions ensure a coordinated approach to specialty drug purchasing for health systems with oncology clinics by developing financial models that reflect their unique product purchasing requirements.

From automated dispensing and packaging solutions to inventory management, health systems can take advantage of AmerisourceBergen’s operations solutions and consulting to increase efficiencies in the pharmacy. You’ll experience reduced costs, improved standardization of processes and time savings, in addition to reduced medication errors and improved regulatory compliance and patient safety. We’ve helped thousands of pharmacies nationwide maximize financial performance and operational efficiencies via reduced inventory and carrying costs, along with reductions in total supply spend through pharmacy consolidation services.

Health system pharmacies can improve care transitions, generate new revenue streams and take ownership of improving population health management with solutions that include ambulatory pharmacy services, clinical call center and retail clinic solutions, medication reconciliation and medication therapy management (MTM) services. These solutions can reduce costly readmissions through improved medication adherence, thereby enhancing the quality of patient care provided by the health system. We help health systems build, optimize and implement these services to unlock the true potential of the health system pharmacy.

With the acquisition of PharMEDium Healthcare Holdings, Inc., in the fall of 2015, AmerisourceBergen expanded our innovative service offerings for health systems. PharMEDium is the national leader in customized pharmacy sterile compounding for hospital intravenous and epidural therapies. PharMEDium delivers “sterile to sterile” CSPs in a ready to use form with enhanced safety, labeling, sterility assurance, and extended expiration dating supported by appropriate studies that often exceeds what hospital pharmacies can accomplish on their own. The CSPs are prepared in state-of-the-art, FDA and state board of pharmacy inspected facilities, using only FDA-approved or allowed drugs in finished dosage form and FDA-approved diluents and FDA-cleared containers. PharMEDium maintains 4 compounding facilities, provides a broad range of 2,000 SKUs and serves over 3,000 hospital customers across all 50 states.

PharMEDium is assisting hospital pharmacies in providing solutions in a challenging and changing environment that addresses savings initiatives, keeping abreast of the latest and greatest treatments and staying educated on the newest life-saving drug developments. PharMEDium is first in keeping customers one step ahead of these challenges, and always placing patient safety, quality and efficiency first. To learn more about PharMEDium’s compounding services, visit http://www.pharmedium.com