March 17, 2022
The Challenges of Pharmaceutical Procurement Managing the pharmaceutical procurement process for a large health system is a complex and grueling process. Why? Because it is commonplace for these organizations to purchase from multiple manufacturers and distributors – resulting in excess of 100 accounts. With so many pharmaceutical accounts to manage, it becomes difficult to know whether health systems continue to get the correct or best price. For example, during the course of a year, a health system paid nine different prices for Astra Zeneca’s drug Symbicort ranging anywhere from $0.05 to $232. Most health systems are not equipped with the […]
