The APA Announces New Services with Members

10/14/96

The American Pharmacy Alliance announces new services to be offered with The Wholesaler Alliance's 26 members.

October 14, 1996, Lexington, KY - The American Pharmacy Alliance (APA) and The Wholesaler Alliance have declared their intent to work together to offer a broad spectrum of new services to their pharmacy customers. These services focus on those areas in which the increased use of technology enables the wholesaler to provide access to cost saving and revenue enhancing programs to their retail pharmacy clients. The Wholesaler Alliance is a nationwide alliance made up of 26 independent, regional wholesalers.

These services allow APA software vendors, in concert with drug wholesalers to help their client pharmacies strengthen key business areas and expand the value pharmacies can derive from their drug wholesaler relationships. These new programs provide pharmacies with the teammates and tools they need to aggressively and profitably compete in the managed care marketplace. The APA is a technology partnership made up of 16 leading pharmacy software companies that provide software and system support services to over 11,000 of the 24,000 independent and small chain pharmacies in the United States.

"It's in the best interest of our member companies and wholesaler partners to keep retail pharmacies healthy by delivering programs that reduce the pharmacist's cost of doing business and increase store revenue," states Karl Steele, APA's president. The APA's suite of wholesaler services include: 1) Formulary and third party edits, 2) Market share rebate programs, 3) Third party receivables financing and reconciliation services, 4) Patient compliance and disease state management programs, 5) Wholesaler replenishment, and 6) Wholesaler consignment inventory programs. These services have been carefully designed so that they utilize the technology already in place in the retail stores in the most effective and least intrusive way.

A primary element within the APA's suite of wholesaler oriented services is the open architecture of its communication and delivery. By offering one common suite of services that have been agreed upon by the APA's founding members, the APA is able to offer to the wholesaler community assured uniform and rapid deployment of any tailored wholesaler program to any and all of the pharmacies using the APA members' systems. Although services are currently limited to the APA members and their customers, the APA intends to make this suite of services available to all software vendors, wholesalers, and pharmacies on an equal basis.

The wholesalers that currently make up The Wholesaler Alliance are Barnes Wholesale Drug, Bellco Drug Corporation, Burlington Drug Company, C.D. Smith Drug Company, Dakco Distribution, Dik Drug Company, Frank W. Kerr Company, General Drug Company, H.D. Smith Wholesale Drug Company, Independent Drug Company, J.M. Smith Drug Company, Jewett Drug Company, KINRAY, Inc., Louisiana Wholesale, McQueary Brothers Drug Company, Miami-Luken, Inc., Michigan Prescription, N.C. Mutual Wholesale Drug Company, Neuman Wholesale Drug Company, Prescription Supply, Remo Drug Company, Rochester Drug Company, Texas Drug Company, Valley Wholesale Drug Company, Valley Drug and Value Drug.

The American Pharmacy Alliance (APA) was formed in March of 1996 with headquarters in Lexington, KY. The APA provides and manages access to beneficial products and services for independent and small chain pharmacies, their customers and software vendors nationwide.

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