The Benefits of Point of Care Dispensing
DispenseDoc can help you enhance and improve patient care while generating supplementary revenue for your practice.
IMPROVED PATIENT CARE
AND COMPLIANCE
The National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS) has noted that 20–30 percent of medication prescriptions are never filled and approximately 50 percent of medications for chronic disease are not taken as prescribed.
A review in the Annals of Internal Medicine estimates that a lack of adherence causes nearly 125,000 deaths, 10 percent of hospitalizations and costs the already strained healthcare system between $100– $289 billion a year.
Patients on Medicaid or the elderly usually must find rides to their physician’s office, which often makes transport to the pharmacy even more challenging. In these cases, receiving both services at the same location would eliminate the inconvenience.
INCREASED REVENUE
Practices that provide in-office dispensing have experienced revenue and profit growth without having to employ additional staff or take on additional patients.
In addition to the direct financial benefit, practice also increase patient satisfaction which can lead to increased referral patients.
Practice revenues reportedly increased from 10-15 percent for well-run in-house pharmacies thanks to repeat business as well as savvy marketing and pharmacy management.
LARGE MEDICATION FORMULARY
& COMPETITIVE PRICES
We offer custom formularies, providing wholesale products at competitive prices tailored specifically to your patient demographic.
As experts in the field, we are adept at handling pharmaceutical market fluctuations and will work to provide your practice with the best prescriptions at wholesale cost, always improving the value of our services.
DispenseDoc also wholesales products which helps our partners keep their inventories low and provides the most aggressive product pricing.
INVENTORY
MANAGEMENT
Our web-based software program allows for simple inventory management right from your Practice Interface.
You can see how many medications are available to dispense through a simple click into your inventory space. Additionally, shipment information is detailed with corresponding invoice numbers and tracking information.
If there are medications dispensed at a common pace, we can set par levels for ease with automatic ordering.
SIMPLE ORDERING
& QUICK PROCESSING
All orders are placed through the web-based software and go directly to our Account Managers who review and verify the order.
Orders are tracked and invoices are entered into the system for your practice by the DispenseDoc team.
PRACTICE
EFFICIENCY
In-office dispensing can save a significant amount of time for the practice by removing the need for prescription notes, communicating with the retail pharmacy, and having to deal with re-prescription in case the medication is not available.
The time spent waiting to fill a prescription medication at a retail pharmacy may also inconvenience the patient thereby discouraging them from purchasing their necessary treatment.
Additionally, there are numerous scenarios where older or restricted patients must find rides to their physician’s office, which often makes transport to the pharmacy even more challenging. In these cases, receiving both services at the same location would eliminate the inconvenience.
