1. Average A suggested price assigned to each drug listed in various published
whole- sale pricing guides.
price (AWP) Insurance companies
reimburse pharmacies based on the of the medication dispensed
2. Dispensing fee charge for the services provided by the pharmacy,
including overhead expenses, salaries, equipment cost, and a selected
profit margin
3. Expiration date length of time in
which the medication retains optimal potency and stability
4. Formulary A list of preferred medications
5. Inventory method for measuring the overall
turnover ettectiveness of purchasing and
rate inventory
control processes, equals total annual inventory purchases
divided by cost of inventory on hand.
6. Invoice A bill of sale for
products ordered
7. Markup The ditterence in price
between the cost at which a business purchases a product and the price
at which they sell it
pharm selling price - pharm purchase price
8. New Drug
Appli- cation 9. Periodic auto- matic replace- ment (PAR)
(NDA)
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process by which new
drugs are proposed to the
Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) for
approval to
market and sell in the
United States
The optimal amount of
each
item that should be
stocked at any given time
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