How a Pharmacy Team Solved an Expensive Problem

By working with other departments to get the data they need, members of this pharmacy team in the Northwest reduced their expired-medication costs by 90 percent. What can your team learn from its success to help keep Kaiser Permanente affordable?

Produced by Jennifer Gladwell.
Edited by Jennifer Gladwell and Kellie Applen.
Videography and Photography by Beverly White and Laura Morton.

In just six months, a pharmacy team in Portland, Ore., reduces its expired-medication costs by 90 percent—from $70,000 to $7,000.

Affordability

Northwest

Fri, 10/27/2017 - 12:00

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Pharmacy team cuts expired-medication costs by 90 percent.

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A Northwest pharmacy reduces its expired-medication costs by 90 percent—from $70,000 to $7,000.