Drug Topics February 20, 2025
From market pressures to regulatory framework, Eric Tichy, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, FCCP, FAST, discussed growth in the business of health-system pharmacy and the challenges it has faced.
Health-system pharmacy has seen impactful growth in the recent past. However, as market pressures and regulatory framework create barriers in a unique health care landscape, the business of keeping health systems sustainable has become a unique challenge for pharmacists and other health-system providers.
“Health-system pharmacy has grown alongside the rapid growth of specialty pharmacy. Because of the high numbers of specialty medications that are generated out of health systems and the special care that goes into providing those medications, health systems have found that they play an important role in making sure patients...