Rx product management

PreferredSOURCE is a single-source, comprehensive generic pharmaceutical program with contract pricing and incentives exclusively for Leader members. It is managed to the industry's highest standards by a team of experts. The program consists of nearly 2,000 single-sourced generic pharmaceutical products that comprise 95 percent of the average retail pharmacy's product needs.

PreferredSOURCE benefits pharmacies by:

• Increasing profitability and gross margin
• Offering prices between 30 and 40 percent below WAC
• Providing low contract cost and high reimbursement
• Providing promotional opportunities through telemarketing with rebates and extended dating
• Decreasing inventory costs
• Providing proven NDC consistency
• Offering low item switch rate
• Maintaining same product, same color and same shape
• Maintaining high serviceability
• Maintaining a consistently high service level
• Offering more than 1,980 single-sourced generic items
• Offering the highest quality products
• Offering the highest available product rating and patient preference

RxAdvantage^® provides one of the largest offerings of manufacturer contracts.

RxAdvantage^® is a comprehensive branded pharmaceutical program that builds customer loyalty while maximizing profit potential. The program features more than 100 high-quality branded products.

RxAdvantage^® benefits pharmacies by:

• Increasing profitability and gross margin
• Providing off-invoice and rebate savings or market-share contracts
• Optimizing third-party reimbursements
• Maintaining competitive pricing
• Providing unequaled product availability
• Offering more than 100 high-quality, fast-moving branded products

First Script^SM is an automatic shipment program that gives pharmacies immediate access to newly released brand-name and generic pharmaceutical products. First Script^SM customers receive new releases as soon as the FDA approves the product, and they are available in Cardinal Health Pharmaceutical Distribution centers, enabling First Script^SM clients to be the first in their communities to offer the products to their customers.

First Script^SM benefits pharmacies by:

• Increasing profitability and gross margin
• Return reminder letters sent 30 days before your invoice is due in your invoice packet for your brand shipments
• Offering more than $1,000 average annual program savings
• Providing off-invoice savings on brand products
• Extending 90-day dating on brand invoices
• Providing automatic distribution on qualified products
• 180 days to return unopened and unused product

ProfitPak is a cost-reducing program that features repackaged high-volume pharmaceuticals. ProfitPak lets pharmacies take advantage of Cardinal Health's tremendous buying power by repackaging high-volume pharmaceutical products into convenient, faster-turning sizes. The results are significantly lower acquisition costs when compared with manufacturers' equivalent sizes, and higher profits for the pharmacy.

ProfitPak benefits pharmacies by offering:

• Increasing profitability and gross margin, especially on third-party prescriptions
• 3 percent on average savings on between 5 to 7 percent of the pharmacy's branded-product purchases—more than $1,000 per year
• Bulk savings without bulk purchases
• Unsurpassed product availability
• The highest quality products
• The packaging of products in compliance with FDA Good Manufacturing Practices
• Inclusion of the original manufacturers' package inserts with the repackaged product