Rochester Drug Cooperative, Aureus Health Services partner on specialty offering for independents

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester Drug Cooperative, a regional pharmaceutical wholesaler, and Aureus Health Services, a national specialty pharmacy and health management company, on Thursday announced a first of its kind specialty pharmacy services program available to RDC's independent, community pharmacy customers.  

 

Aureus will provide specialty pharmacy management services to RDC customer pharmacies to support the needs of their specialty patients and physicians. The private-labeled program will operate under the name Quality Care Specialty Pharmacy Program and will provide community pharmacies with the support and expertise needed to service patients who utilize specialty medications. 

 

The Quality Care Specialty Pharmacy Program has been designed to allow patients the choice of picking up their specialty prescriptions from their local community pharmacy, the same pharmacy that is providing their traditional prescriptions for more common conditions like asthma, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension amongst others. 

 

"The Quality Care Specialty Pharmacy Program provides a much-needed solution for our independent pharmacy customers by providing them the ability to service patients taking specialty prescriptions," said Larry Doud, CEO, RDC, "Up until now many pharmacies had to turn away patients because they were not equipped with the infrastructure and internal resources to manage specialty medications. Now the pharmacies are able to navigate the complex process associated with filling a specialty drug, enabling them to retain the customers that they are already servicing." 

 

"Aureus is excited to be RDC's partner in this important initiative", said Michael Nameth, CEO of Aureus Health Services, "the Quality Care Specialty Pharmacy Program will help get patients started on their drug therapy more quickly, provide financial assistance to those patients in need and better educate them on their therapies, resulting in improved medication adherence and outcomes."  

 

The program is immediately available to all RDC customers with stores located throughout New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Eastern Ohio, Southern Connecticut and currently expanding to other areas.