Tag: AmerisourceBergen

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.  – AmerisourceBergen has long offered consulting and startup services through its Pharmacy Solutions division, so when its health system customers said they wanted to add or improve home infusion services, the company built a program to help them do just that, says Dan Teich, vice president of client strategies.  “This is the next pivot in the market, based off talking to our customers, to help them de-risk the entry into home infusion,” he said. “It...

YARMOUTH, Maine – With demand for home infusion growing, it’s no surprise that some health systems seek to extend their reach into that market and they’re doing it with the help of big names like AmerisourceBergen, say M&A analysts.  In April, AmerisourceBergen, a global health care company focused on pharmacy services, announced the launch of a program to help hospitals and health systems create or optimize home infusion service lines.   “Hospitals are...

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. – AmerisourceBergen has launched a program to help hospitals and health systems create or optimize home infusion service lines. Each phase of AB’s solution is designed to help health systems deploy and operate a clinically-focused, sustainable home infusion program for patients that choose to receive care within a health system network, the company says. While the infusions will be handled by the health systems’ clinical teams directly, AB’s solution serves...

VALLEY FORGE, Pa., and SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - AmerisourceBergen will purchase H.D. Smith for $815 million in cash, the two companies have announced.H.D. Smith is among the largest wholesalers in the country, providing a full line of brand name, generic and specialty drugs from 10 distribution centers across the U.S.“The acquisition of H. D. Smith strengthens our core business and expands and enhances our strategic scale in U.S. pharmaceutical distribution,” said Steven Collis, chairman,...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A circuit court judge has told PharMerica Corp., a national provider with 17 specialty home infusion pharmacies, to honor outstanding invoices from AmerisourceBergen Drug Corp. for about $48.5 million. PharMerica has withheld payment and applied the invoice amounts against rebates and other amounts that it believes AmerisourceBergen owes the provider, which are in excess of $48.5 million. But the Jefferson County Kentucky Circuit Court ruled on April 1 that PharMerica must pay the...