Switching Wholesalers Is Easy With PBA Health
PBA Health offers its members an objective choice of preferred wholesalers. Each one offers unique strengths to meet your business needs, but all of them offer a firm commitment to the essential elements of transparency, accountability, and supporting the economic health of your business.
While the thought of changing to one of PBA Health’s preferred wholesalers may seem like an intimidating task, it isn’t. Through thousands of migration experiences, PBA Health and its preferred wholesalers have developed comprehensive work plans and quality assurance programs to ensure that your transition is smooth, manageable, and convenient—both for you and your staff. Together with PBA Health’s ProfitGuard services, you can obtain the best possible cost of goods at the highest possible service levels with PBA Health’s preferred wholesalers.
H. D. Smith
Widely regarded as the nation's independent wholesale leader, H. D. Smith provides a full range of products and business solutions to serve the unique and growing needs of community pharmacy. Understanding that independent pharmacies need more than just brand and generic pharmaceuticals, H. D. Smith remains committed to stocking a full and diverse line of DME, home healthcare and health and beauty products that equip independent pharmacies to differentiate themselves from big-box retailers and mail order pharmacy.
H. D. Smith takes its role seriously as a vital part of the healthcare product distribution channel, requiring second-to-none delivery and security for the benefit of PBA Health members and ultimately the patients being served. Through H. D. Smith, PBA Health members can access multiple generic contract options that facilitate cost savings opportunities, which can help alleviate the onerous MAC reimbursement rates observed in the market today, and the uncertainty of future reimbursement models on the horizon.
Cardinal Health
From its beginnings as a food wholesaler in 1971 to its strong position on today's list of Fortune 500 companies, Cardinal Health has concentrated on delivering products and services that help pharmacies reduce costs, improve safety, productivity and profitability, and deliver better care to patients. Its pharmaceutical segment, which consolidates pharmaceuticals from hundreds of manufacturers into site-specific deliveries to retail pharmacies, illustrates the company's added focus on making supply chains more efficient.
After nearly four decades of growth, Cardinal Health has become an international company that employs more than 30,000 people across the world and applies its vast resources, knowledge and expertise toward helping patient care providers meet their most pressing challenges.
Morris & Dickson
Morris & Dickson was founded more than 165 years ago, yet to this day it is a thriving example of a company that continues to incorporate new technologies and ideas into its business model.
Family owned and operated, Morris & Dickson is headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana. Its field representatives—as well as its drivers, warehouse staff, administration and customer support teams—work to create powerful relationships that transcend traditional supplier/customer roles. These relationships, combined with outstanding service and personalized support, have earned the company recognition as one of the country's oldest and most successful pharmaceutical wholesaler organizations.
Morris & Dickson complements its exceptional service with state of the art equipment and procedures for pharmaceutical distribution. Independent pharmacies benefit, not only from this successful combination, but also from the company's ongoing efforts to serve its customers more efficiently.