Aug 29, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, pharmacy
For the privately insured, with either Signal Iduna or Deutschen Ring, there is a customer benefits programme for the purchase of „over the counter“ medications at around 1,200 Linda-Apotheken stores. In the second phase, the partnership will include, as...
Aug 20, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, pharmacy
According to IMS Health, in the first 6 months of this year around 76% of sales through mail-order pharmacies were self-medication drugs and 24% were prescription medicines. Prescription drugs amounted to only 6% of the total packages sold. „Over the...
Apr 13, 2012 | Allgemein, care, company news @en, DE, market knowledge, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy
As a health reform, the massive impact of the bill to restructure the drug market (AMNOG) on the earnings situation of pharmacies has been almost without precedent. It has been valid since January 2011. As part of the second implementation phase of AMNOG –...
Mrz 16, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, pharmacy
Mail order retail selling medications and health products from pharmacies is flourishing and is currently experiencing a definite upward trend. Although sales (1.3 billion Euro) are only about 3 percent compared to overall pharmacy business sales, the trend – in...
Mrz 14, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, homecare / nursing care @en, market knowledge, pharmaceutical industry, pharmaceuticals, pharmacy
After years of pressure from organizations and professional associations, the Federal Insurance Office has included chronic pain disorder in its future catalog of 80 diagnostic groups which are part of the morbidity-based risk adjustment (Morbi-RSA). The organizations...
Feb 5, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, market knowledge, pharmacy
A cabinet paper in reference to the Pharmacy Act raises the standards for pharmacies preparing parenterals. The bill allows for the mandatory introduction of a quality management system; furthermore, the following will need to be regulated: medications to be used,...