Potential Cost Savings for a Health System–Based Employee Outpatient Pharmacy

Abstract

Abstract Hospitals everywhere are faced with the same dilemma as other companies, struggling to manage rising health care expenses while providing optimal care for their employees. One of the often overlooked drug expense is the drugs consumed by the facility's employees. Although the average pharmacy department manager has a considerable amount of experience and expertise in dealing with drug expense issues for inpatients or even classic outpatients, the path to optimizing the drug expense investment strategies for their fellow employees can be difficult and elusive to discern. This article should provide a pharmacy manager with a few examples of how to contain costs for employee outpatient pharmacies.