Cardinal Health encourages use of its managed care services

Cardinal Health is encouraging more organisations to make use of its extended managed care network, as it approaches the 3,000-member mark.

Within the last year, the firm has more than doubled the number of long-term care contracts it offers members of LeaderNET – its comprehensive managed care offering.

Furthermore, it recently added contracts for niche markets including immunisations and 90-day medication supply programmes.

It also offers participating pharmacies access to a support team that can provide audit assistance and answers to managed care, reimbursement questions and general queries.

“One of the key reasons why a growing number of independent pharmacies use our managed care services is that they consistently deliver tangible results,” commented Steve Lawrence, senior vice-president of independent sales for the group.

Cardinal Health experienced a year-on-year revenue increase of three per cent during the second quarter of its fiscal year, its latest earnings results showed.

The company generated $24.9 billion (15.8 billion pounds) during the three-month period – up from $24.1 billion the year before.