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Drug Spend & 340B Optimization

We optimize clinical outcomes while reducing your drug spend.

We help you achieve remarkable cost savings by providing data-driven clinical insights and outlining initiatives that control drug spend and improve clinical outcomes.

Our experts will work with your pharmacy team to implement best-practices in drug utilization, GPO contract & drug formulary optimization, ensure regulatory compliance and maximize your 340B benefit.


What We Do

Detailed Drug Spend Reduction Strategies

We help our customers achieve remarkable cost savings through providing data-driven clinical insights and outlining initiatives that reduce their drug spend and improve clinical outcomes.

Opportunities

  • High cost specialty drug spend reduction

  • Antimicrobial stewardship

  • GPO contract optimization

  • Drug formulary optimization

  • IV to PO - Reduce over-use of injections when oral formulations would be more appropriate

  • Redirect outpatient pharmacy services outside the Inpatient Setting when appropriate


340B Optimization

Whether you need help implementing a new 340B program, or optimizing or expanding an existing one, our 340B certified expert will dive into the details of your 340B objectives, challenges, resources and opportunities.

Opportunities

  • Maximizing 340B program savings

  • Evaluate and ensure program compliance

  • 340B Program implementation and/or expansion

  • Operational support including committee set up, policy and procedure development, staff training, and audit programs


Operational Improvement Support

We help your team ensure your patients receive the right care in the right care setting. Our detailed plans can improve clinical outcomes and capture additional reimbursement.

Opportunities

  • Leverage pharmacy informatics to drive best practice standards

  • Establish or expand outpatient infusion services

  • Leverage efficiencies and safety through automation


Safe Medication Practices

The adverse consequence of diversion in healthcare includes harm, not only to the drug diverter, but also risk of harm for your patients. We can assess your operations for opportunities to increase safe medication practices.

Opportunities

  • Medication safety and drug diversion risk assessment & mitigation plan

  • Pharmaceutical waste management and opioid use reduction strategies


Sterile Compounding Compliance

Safely compounded medications are essential to quality patient care. Our sterile compounding expert will complete a gap assessment and plan for compliance with USP 797 & 800.

Opportunities

  • Compliance gap assessment and improvement plan

  • Facility design, including new construction or improvement of current rooms

  • Operational support including procedure development, staff training, and audit programs


Additional client-specific offerings upon request


Case Studies

Our pharmacy team has expertise guiding pharmacies to reach a new level of added value. Examples include: