physician dispensing

Pharmacy Products

Ancillary Advantage offers a full line of products to meet your practice’s pharmacy dispensing needs. These include:

Our product inventory covers thousands of prescription medications, including all legend drugs, controlled narcotics (Schedule II-V), antibiotics and OTC medications. Medications are packaged in an FDA/DEA compliant facility and pedigree tracking is maintained for all products. Depending upon your type of practice, we can provide you with sample formularies that you can add to or subtract from to create a formulary specifically tailored to your practice’s needs. In most cases, 15-20 items on your formulary cover 80% or more of your patients’ requirements.

Medical foods support specific nutritional requirements of the body, targeting a specific disease or condition. These products are regulated by the FDA and require a doctor’s prescription to be dispensed. Medical foods provide patients with a safe alternative to prescription medications and have been found to be an effective treatment for many conditions, including pain, arthritis and inflammation. Ancillary Advantage is a leader in making these products available for physician dispensing and we can provide you with clinical documentation detailing the efficacy and prescribing information for these products.

Define Medical Foods

We offer a complete line of supplements that can be competitively priced against retail alternatives. Not all supplements are the same and the quality of their active and inactive ingredients is key to their effectiveness. All supplements provided by Ancillary Advantage are pharmaceutical grade and recognized to be of the highest quality in the marketplace.

What are Medical Foods?

The term medical food, as defined in section 5(b) of the Orphan Drug Act (21 U.S.C. 360ee (b) (3)) is "a food which is formulated to be consumed or administered enterally under the supervision of a physician and which is intended for the specific dietary management of a disease or condition for which distinctive nutritional requirements, based on recognized scientific principles, are established by medical evaluation." Your Ancillary Advantage representative can provide you with additional background information on medical foods, including a report from Frost and Sullivan on the impact these products are having on health care.

How do they differ from supplements?

Supplements support the healthy function of the body by adding to substances already in the body. For example, glucosamine and chondroitin, taken for osteoarthritis, naturally occur in the body's joints. Glucosamine stimulates joint repair, chondroitin maintains joint viscosity.

Supplements are regulated by the FDA as a food (not a drug). There is no requirement that their effectiveness be based upon medical or scientific evidence and they do not require a prescription.

Commercial payers include insurance companies such as Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Aetna, United Healthcare, etc. Patients covered by these payers often times have a pharmacy benefit card that enables them to fill their prescriptions at a retail pharmacy. However, these prescriptions can also be filled in your office at the point of care through our Cash and Carry program.

The Ancillary Advantage Cash and Carry program is offered to patients as an alternative to having their prescriptions filled at a retail pharmacy. We provide you with a product formulary that includes most of the medications that you are already prescribing to your patients.

Prescriptions are filled and the practice collects the co-payment amount that would otherwise be paid to the retail pharmacy. There is no need to process a prescription card for adjudication and payment. In addition to being a convenient option for your patients, a cash and carry program is also a financial revenue opportunity for your practice.