Community Health Care and SunRx have teamed up to help more patients obtain affordable drugs.
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Community Health Care, a center in Bridgeton, N.J., serving uninsured and underinsured community members, is expanding its
pharmacy services to include more 340B program patients. The 340B program from the federal government discounts medications
by an average of 48 percent of wholesale drug costs. Because the program is complex, many community health centers have limited
340B programs or none at all.
As a result, Community Health Care, which serves 43,000 patients at 18 sites across southern New Jersey, recently began working
with SunRx of Mount Laurel, N.J., to handle the 340B paperwork and operations. The community center also contracted with three
Shop Rite Pharmacy locations to fill those prescriptions, an expansion from using only one local pharmacy as was the practice
in previous years.
SunRx's third-party solution qualifies the patients eligible for 340B and automatically refills the prescription when the
drug is dispensed. "We are tracking the drug to make sure it gets to the right patient at the right time," said Jeff Rollins,
chief marketing and sales officer for SunRx.
"It is very transparent. There is very little difference when patients are filling the prescription," said Bob Moran, vice
president and COO of Community Health Care. With its new ability to provide drugs for 340B-eligible patients, Community Health Care hopes to help many more patients.
"Too many patients are unable to afford the medications our doctors prescribe," said Gil Walter, CEO of Community Health Care.
Recently SunRx also expanded its 340B services to include hundreds of children's hospitals across the nation, providing low-income
and underserved children with increased access to prescribed medications.
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