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December 2024

Preparing for 2025, End of Year Guidance

Get setup for Success in 2025! December is full of end of year reporting and preparation for the new year. Let IPC help set you up for success.

Let IPC’s Pharmacy Services team guide you to success in 2025!

Choosing the right vendor can be overwhelming, but our Pharmacy Services department is here to help. At IPC, we strategically select vendors based on your business needs and their capabilities. Here are the steps we take in our discovery and qualification stages:

  • Understand our member pharmacies’ business needs.
  • Evaluate vendor experience and expertise.
  • Assess technology and features.
  • Consider customer support and training.
  • Evaluate cost and ROI.
  • Ensure regulatory compliance.
  • Negotiate and review the contract.

Join our Vendor Advantage Network to access top vendors and exciting new programs. Contact our Pharmacy Services department today to enhance your services and offerings for 2025!

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New Year, New Opportunities!

IPC is answering the call to support our members with a pharmacy-driven telehealth solution for you and your patients.

As we approach the close of 2024, we’re excited to share that iCare+ continues to thrive, providing valuable opportunities for both our members and their patient populations. Looking ahead to 2025, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming launch of new Weight Loss clinics and protocols as well as Remote Patient Monitoring.

As iCare+ continues to grow, remember to think about the additional vendor partners that could benefit you in your journey. Digital advertising screens from Dolphin Digital make promoting iCare+ a breeze. Stocking products from Biolyte, Windmill Vitamins & Medella Springs help with conversations and suggestions when performing follow up Telepharmacy Lite calls and counseling. Don’t forget Point of Care Testing and the programs, training and product deals that SiteLabs, Quidel & CLIAwaived can provide.

IPC remains steadfast in our mission to support you with solutions that drive success. As iCare+ continues to accelerate platform growth, we’re excited for the profitable results these new offerings will bring to your practice.

iCare Plus

Check out offers from some of our other great vendors!

vials.com

IPC members saved over $100K in 2023 with our exclusive contracted pricing AND additional offers!

Farmer and Chemist

New lower minimum order of $300 and free shipping! Missed our webinar? Watch here.

Farmer & Chemist CBD Display with CBD gummies, tinctures, and more.

The IPC Pharmacy Services Department is looking for your feedback.

The Vendor Advantage Network is looking to expand its offerings, and while we can research, vet and present those to you, we want to hear YOUR VOICE. Let us know what products or services your pharmacy is missing or needs better pricing on!

Adherence packaging, marketing assistance, retail items, billing, and digital services? You name it and we’ll investigate it! At IPC, YOU make the decisions!

Shannon Battle

Pharmacy Services Manager

Shannon Battle serves as the Manager of Pharmacy Services. As a certified pharmacy technician, Shannon brings over 12 years of retail, community and closed-door pharmacy experience to the Vendor Advantage Network. She works tirelessly to seek out the most efficient business solutions, the highest revenue margins and elevated customer service possible from vendors offered to our members. Shannon’s history as a Pharmacy Training Manager has given her valuable insights into the real behind-the-scenes needs of a pharmacy and providing quality access to products and services for our members is her number one priority.

Explore More Vendors

The first liquid supplement that offers the same benefits of IV rehydration therapy, but in a drinkable form.
GPO Member Benefit
As a pharmacist-owned and operated business, PRS offers the best in pharmacy consulting services and has the expertise that far exceeds other pharmacy consultants or service organizations.
GPO Member Benefit
35 years of experience designing and distributing award winning products and retailers worldwide.
Windmill is at the forefront of creating innovative products to meet market changes, offering cutting-edge, clinically based formulas to deliver increasing profits to retail partners.
Home health care franchise opportunity for pharmacies.
Unlock exclusive discounts on your NCPA Membership! SAVE $90 on a single pharmacy annual membership!
Independent pharmacy’s trusted partner for accounting services, starting, buying, & selling
Offers the best products for sustaining a healthy lifestyle by using the highest quality ingredients that meet regulatory requirements.
Amundsen Davis’s attorneys are prepared to handle a multitude of diverse legal services from the inception of business, to labor and employment issues, and litigation.
GPO Member Benefit
Your trusted partner for quality point-of-care testing.
GPO Member Benefit
Meet Nimble. Your New Revenue Stream.
GPO Member Benefit
To help meet the financial needs of independent pharmacies across the country, First Financial Bank’s Pharmacy Lending team includes pharmacists and former pharmacy owners.
GPO Member Benefit
Atrium24 is a tech company to help independent pharmacies grow through smarter sales & marketing.
Receive a single check for all expired pharmaceutical return credit due through the OneCheck Select program, in as few as 10 days.
GPO Member Benefit
A leader in pharmaceutical returns, Inmar processes over 50% of all Rx returns for independent pharmacies.
GPO Member Benefit
Specializes in providing long-term care pharmacies with the tools and services needed to survive in today’s environment.
GPO Member Benefit
DollarDays partners with 16k+ pharmacies since 2001. Free shipping, 30k+ products, retail displays, 50-80% margins, cases sold, great support.
GPO Member Benefit
The Selzer Company - Community Pharmacy Insurance Solutions: 35+ years, custom insurance, competitive pricing, support for independents.
Weaving style and quality into therapeutic threads, VIM & VIGR products are part designer socks, part medical device, and all designed with your customers in mind.
Medella Springs enhances pharmacy revenue with clinically proven supplements for sleep, focus, stress, GI health, and natural insect repellents.
Pharm Fresh Media is a full-service pharmacy marketing company with the experience and know-how to set you apart from the competition.
Your access to affordable vaccines is made easy through IPC’s preferred vaccine vendors.
GPO Member Benefit
A leading manufacturer of innovative social expression products that assist consumers in enhancing their relationships.
GPO Member Benefit
Restock your OTC Covid-19 test kits at a discount with no minimum order. SiteLabs also offers a point-of-care testing program, and more.
GPO Member Benefit
Choose from a great variety of sun and reading glasses. Convenient price tags are color-coded by category or strength.
GPO Member Benefit
Designer Greetings is virtually unrivaled in terms of quality, value and depth, with more than 22,000 everyday and seasonal designs.
GPO Member Benefit
For over 60 years, PPRB has helped pharmacies build relationships, generate sales, and win customers with their signature line of high-quality, low-cost wall calendars.
GPO Member Benefit
RxHearing is fully staffed with board-certified hearing specialists with over 100 years of combined experience in the hearing health industry.
CheckmyRxCost helps pharmacies compare prices across multiple wholesalers, ensuring the best possible purchase strategy for each order.
Berry creates innovative packaging that makes life better for people and the planet by leveraging their unmatched global capabilities, sustainability leadership, and deep innovation.
Compliance management system dedicated to helping independent pharmacies manage wholesale contracts and wholesale ordering.
GPO Member Benefit
SureCost is the smarter purchasing solution that empowers pharmacies to save time and money.
Farmer & Chemist CBD products provide a more pure, more concentrated formula to ensure your patients get the right CBD treatment at the right time.
A fast, simple, and complete solution for prescription-packaging products. Free custom imprints, free same-day shipping.
QuidelOrtho delivers a continuum of diagnostic solutions that further improve patient outcomes and the overall quality of healthcare.
GPO Member Benefit
Dolphin Digital can revolutionize the way your pharmacy connects with customers and generates additional revenue.

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