FDS & Amplicare Launch Navigate Online Enrollment Platform
Wednesday, 07 October 2020
New digital technology empowers pharmacists to improve the shopping experience for Medicare beneficiaries during Medicare’s annual Open Enrollment Period FORT WORTH, TX. and NEW YORK – Oct. 7, 2020 – FDS, a leading pharmacy technology company, and its subsidiary Amplicare, a provider of a decision-automation platform for healthcare providers, today announced the availability of
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Why Independent Pharmacies Need to Reconcile Claims
Friday, 25 September 2020
Few things are worse than checking your balance and seeing a lower number than you expect. Two decades ago, the NCPA filed a report on the differences between amounts approved and amounts paid to independent pharmacies by third-party payers. They found that when there was a difference, the pharmacy lost an average of $20 per
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The COVID-19 Vaccine: What We Know, What We Suspect, and What We Can’t Predict
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Original Webcast: Thursday, September 24, 2020 » 1:00-1:30 PM EDT Multiple pharmaceutical companies are hard at work on a COVID-19 vaccine. Some even claim that they will have their first supplies available as early as October. Will that be the beginning of the end for this virus? We don’t know. The COVID-19 vaccine is the
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Immunization Changes & How They Affect Your Pharmacy
Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Original webcast: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 @ 1:00 PM EDT Pharmacies have been offering immunization services for years, but 2020 is changing things. And, for what seems like the first time this year, the changes are actually good. In the last few weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services has expanded what vaccines pharmacies
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FDS and Amplicare Announce Strategic Pharmacy Software Merger
Wednesday, 02 September 2020
Two Leading Pharmacy Software Companies Join Forces to Empower Retail Pharmacies with Best-In-Class Software Solutions, Helping Further Pharmacists’ Roles as Critical Healthcare Providers FORT WORTH, Texas (September 2, 2020) — Today, pharmacy software providers FDS, Inc. and Amplicare announced a strategic merger as an unprecedented move to support the acceleration of pharmacies as essential healthcare providers.
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State of the Industry: The Increasing Importance of Medical Billing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Original Webcast: Thursday, August 27, 2020 @ 1:00 PM EDT Historically, pharmacists have looked at clinical care services as a way of both improving care for their patients and creating a new revenue stream for their business. While most still relied primarily on dispensing to pay the bills, they looked forward to being able to
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Why Your Pharmacy Should Expand into Patient Care Services
Thursday, 27 August 2020
Today’s patients need more healthcare options. Doctors’ offices are overbooked, and patients can wait months for a simple check-up. And the pandemic is only making matters worse. On the pharmacy side of things, prescription reimbursement rates are falling, and increasing DIR fees are taking bigger chunks of that revenue every day. To survive, pharmacies have
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center Announces Partnership with FDS
Monday, 24 August 2020
University of Tennessee Health Science Center and FDS, Inc. Form Partnership to Study the Impact of Community Pharmacy Driven COVID-19 Testing on Public Health FDS, Inc., a leading pharmacy software company, announced today a partnership with University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Pharmacy to mobilize community pharmacies as COVID-19 testing sites and
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Why Pharmacies are Shifting Focus to Clinical Care Services
Thursday, 13 August 2020
Community pharmacies are evolving. In his webinar “Care Planning: The Key to Thriving and Surviving,” Mark McCurdy, RPh, said “Don’t try to fit clinical care into your dispensing schedule. Fit dispensing into your clinical care schedule.” Why would he put so much emphasis on clinical care? Because that’s the future of pharmacy. Diversifying to Survive
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The New Normal: Testing & Billing in Response to COVID-19
Thursday, 30 July 2020
Original Webcast: Thursday, July 30, 2020 @ 1:00 PM EDT Most people are counting down the days until life gets back to normal. For some of us, there is no going back to normal. COVID-19 has changed things. And while the negatives are too many to count, one positive that has come out of this
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