A world without distributors
See the increased cost and complexity that occurs without healthcare’s critical connectors.
As a healthcare distributor, Amerisourcebergen provides so much more than healthcare logistics. We are the critical link between pharmaceutical manufacturers and healthcare providers, ensuring that crucial medications efficiently, reliably and securely reach their destinations. We drive success and growth for providers and manufacturers, freeing more of their time and resources for what they do best — developing innovation and delivering care.
But what would happen if we weren’t here?
A world without distributors is one where cost and complexity for manufacturers, healthcare providers and, ultimately, patients rise.
Providers
Enable financial stability
Facilitate business intelligence
Protect the supply chain
The guardian
the banker
Drive strategic partnerships
So much more than healthcare logistics
Our role in healthcare creates value beyond distribution alone
Advancing access and adding value to the supply chain
A critical part of Amerisourcebergen's role in healthcare is advancing access to pharmaceutical care, the most cost-effective care available. We do that in a way that mitigates financial risk for manufacturers and makes the entire system more efficient.
We support manufacturers by taking financial ownership of their products and collecting payment from provider customers.
Providers have limited cash flow and reimbursement is constantly in flux. Distributors create financial stability by covering the cost of inventory between dispense and reimbursement.
The fact is, we take on financial risk that no other stakeholder in the supply chain can (or will). Across the supply chain, this practice creates a marketplace that enables efficient, reliable access to the medications patients need most.
Ready to learn more about how we connect creators and caregivers?
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Safeguarding the integrity of healthcare products in the supply chain by ensuring uncompromised quality and reporting suspicious activity
Essential, aggregated data
on products and share insights that help manufacturers bring life-saving therapies to market
Providers rely on us for insights to help them navigate change, optimize business performance, and amplify their value in
the community
Value-driving commercialization solutions to help bring products to market
Customized provider solutions to improve business performance and patient experience
Receivables management for $150B+ annually across customers of all sizes and types
Contract, order and pricing management across millions of transactions
Cost
$53B
Distributors’ core services provide up to $53 billion in value to the healthcare system each year*
Complexity
Business model changes from managing and serving three primary distributor customers to hundreds of thousands of healthcare provider customers
Total impact
Focus shifts away from developing life-saving medications to delivering them
Cost
83%
83% of customers receive deliveries of prescription pharmaceuticals 5x per week or more, reducing provider inventory levels and costs*
Complexity
Forced to manage contracting, ordering, payment, shipment, timing and returns for hundreds – or even thousands – of products
Total impact
Focus shifts from delivering care to caring about deliveries
Cost
Distributors’ value-added services, including patient adherence programs, save healthcare more than $9.8 billion per year*
Complexity
Convenient, local access to medications becomes unreliable – with no guarantees about how, where or when medications will be available
Total impact
Focus shifts from seeking the best care available to finding where medications are available
Manufacturers
Providers
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Manufacturers
Manufacturers
1 The Role of Distributors in the U.S. Specialty Pharmaceuticals Value Chain. Center for Healthcare Supply Chain Research. December 2015.
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Manufacturers
*The Role of Distributors in the U.S. Health Care Industry. HDA and Deloitte Consulting, July 2019.
*The Role of Distributors in the U.S. Health Care Industry. HDA and Deloitte Consulting, July 2019.
Distributors’ discounts to sites of care for meeting certain contract terms are often the first step in making products more affordable in the marketplace
Manufacturers
Receivables management for $150B+ annually across customers of all sizes
and types
Protecting the healthcare supply chain against fraudulent activities that harm patient care deliveries
*The Role of Distributors in the U.S. Health Care Industry. HDA and Deloitte Consulting, July 2019.
*The Role of Distributors in the U.S. Health Care Industry. HDA and Deloitte Consulting, July 2019.
$9.8B
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Receivables management for $150B+ annually across customers of all sizes and types
Contract, order and pricing management across millions of transactions
Enable financial stability
Value-driving commercialization solutions to help bring products to market
Customized provider solutions to
improve business performance
and patient experience
Drive strategic partnerships
Essential, aggregated data on products and share insights that help manufacturers bring life-saving therapies to market
Facilitate business intelligence
Safeguarding the integrity of healthcare products in the supply chain by ensuring uncompromised quality and reporting suspicious activity
Protect the
supply chain
Providers rely on us for insights to help them navigate change, optimize business performance, and amplify their value in the community
$9.8B
Distributors’ value-added services, including patient adherence programs, save healthcare more than $9.8 billion per year*
Cost
*The Role of Distributors in the U.S. Health Care Industry. HDA and Deloitte Consulting, July 2019.
Complexity
Forced into uncertainty and inconvenience – with no guarantees about how, where or when medications will be available
Total impact
Focus shifts from seeking the best care available to finding where medications are available
