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Announcements, meeting notices, Conference Updates, etc. Anything and everything that
is of immediate importance to Pharmacy Purchasing Professionals across the country can be put here.
Just send an
email to the PPO Webmaster with your announcement and that's it!
All information will be submitted to PPO for review and/or publication.
Featured Items on the Bulletin Board
Now Available to Order:
2008 Buyer Salary & Task Survey Report
The 2008 Buyer Salary & Task Survey as seen
in the March, April, & May editions of
Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook newsletter is now also available for purchase
as a separate report (Parts I, II, & III together).
Available as of June 1, the report can either be sent as a PDF file
via email for $39.95 or as a hard copy sent U.S. mail for $49.95 (plus tax ONLY
for California residents). Note: Purchase Orders will NOT be accepted for this Report.
If you were one of the Survey respondents, we will give you a $10 discount (must provide
email you listed when taking the Survey for us to confirm).
To order, click HERE for the printable Order Form to complete & return to our office.
Job Available:
Pharmacy Analyst, St. Paul, Minnesota
$40,361 - $59,195
The Minnesota Multistate Contracting Alliance
for Pharmacy (MMCAP) is a voluntary group purchasing organization operated and managed by the Materials Management Division
of the State of Minnesota's Department of Administration
for government healthcare facilities.
MMCAP services over 2,000 facilities in 45
states with annual contracting purchases that will exceed $1.2 billion in 2008. MMCAP's
primary function is to provide a full range of pharmaceuticals to its participating facilities. MMCAP also contracts for vials and containers, medical supplies, drug testing, returned goods processing,
influenza vaccine, and dental supplies.
MMCAP is seeking a Pharmacy Analyst to:
Ÿ Ensure MMCAP contract pricing
and products are accurately updated for dissemination to MMCAP facility members;
Ÿ Review existing contracts and
usage data from multiple sources to assist the MMCAP pharmacist in determining best value purchasing for MMCAP facilities
considering factors such as facility class of trade, purchasing patterns and
the availability of different generic or therapeutically equivalent products;
Ÿ Develop and coordinate MMCAP’s
internal pharmaceutical product and price auditing programs to ensure program accuracy and to meet GPO industry quality assurance
expectations; and
Ÿ Support clinical pharmacy consulting
services and support provided by MMCAP to its member facilities.
This position is based out of MMCAP’s office in St. Paul, Minnesota. Interested persons
should contact Al Becicka, MMCAP Manager (al.becicka@state.mn.us or (651) 201-2410), for additional information including application materials.
The position posting will close Friday, August 1, 2008.
State of Minnesota
Equal Opportunity Employer
Special Referral Program Bonus
Summerdale Enterprises, Inc., publisher of Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook newsletter, and conductor of the 12th
Annual Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference, is offering a special bonus for a limited time period, to their usual Referral
Program for Subscribers to refer new displaying Sponsors to the Conference.
The bonus is this:
the Pharmacy
Purchasing Outlook subscriber who has the largest total dollar amount of commissions earned for the period May 22 through July 22, 2008,
will receive, in addition to the normal 7% commissions on each referral earned, the below:
Their choice of A) $250 check, B) a $250 Office Depot
Gift Card, or C) a $250 Sears Gift Card.
Our normal Referral Program goes like this: If a new displaying Sponsor signs up with you listed as the Referring Agent on their Sponsor Forms, after
that company’s Sponsor Fees are paid, we will reward you or your Pharmacy Department with a 7% commission, based on
the amount that company paid for their basic displaying booth package for that timeframe (Sponsor booth package fees increase
as we get closer to the Conference).
Additional Sponsorships beyond the booth package are not
included in the Referral Program. Commission amounts represent 7% of the net
value of the booths as listed below. Note that if a Sponsor, for some unforeseen
reason, receives a discount off the below listed booth rates, the 7% fee will apply to the Sponsor’s net payment amount.
In addition to the special bonus in effect for 5/22 through
7/22 (see above), the 7% commissions come out to the below schedule, according to the date Sponsor’s payment is received
here at the PPO offices.
Sponsor Payment Received Between 5/22/08 and 5/31/08:
$220.50: 7% of Bronze Sponsor Fee, $3,150.00
$441.00: 7% of Silver Fee, $6,300.00
$661.50: 7% of Gold Fee, $9.450.00
$882.00: 7% of Diamond Fee, $12,600.00
Sponsor Payment Received Between 6/1/08 and 7/22/08:
$245.00: 7% of Bronze Fee, $3,500.00
$490.00: 7% of Silver Fee, $7,000.00
$735.00: 7% of Gold Fee, $10.500.00
$980.00: 7% of Diamond Fee, $14,000.00
Grant Program for Underfunded Buyers To Attend PPN Conference
Grant Sponsor Levels
Bronze
- $500
Silver
- $501 - $1,500
Gold
- $1,501 - $4,500
Diamond
- $4,501 - $10,000
Elite Diamond - $10,000+ 
New Site for Conference XII
It's official!
Click on picture for hotel information
The move was precipitated by our former Conference location's inability to supply our needs, both in hotel
rooms and meeting space. With 1200 more rooms than The Orleans and five times the convention space, it'll be some time before
we outgrow them.
The dates for the Conference are August 11-14, 2008. Even though we will
be getting a larger block of rooms in 2008, waiting until the last minute is still not a good idea. We will not be the only
ones using their hotel rooms and meeting space. The Hilton is the official home of the Creation Entertainment STAR TREK(TM)
National Convention, which will be winding up as we are camping in. It's the largest Star Trek convention in the country,
and Trekkies and Trekkers from all over the world converge at the Hilton.
The LV Hilton's rate for our group is $105/weeknight, and
it should be the same name as before, the conference name spelled out without the "12th Annual" (Pharmacy
Purchasing Networking Conference spelled out). Or, just click on the 'HILTON'
icon above to be directed to our online reservation site.
Their reservation number is: 888-732-7117.
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Pharmacy
Purchasing Outlook Wage and Task Survey
Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook is attempting to gather the largest, most comprehensive salary survey for Pharmacy Purchasing
Professionals to date. You do not have to be a subscriber to PPO to complete this survey. Also, please recommend any Pharmacy Purchasing Professional you know to complete this
survey. Thank you in advance.
Wage and Task Survey has ENDED. Look for the results
in future PPO's
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Video from the Conference X
While
at the Conference, you might have noticed, Mike Thomas, Conference Moderator, running around with a camera and a video camera.
The result is the first video of the Conference ever posted on the Internet!
It's a short (4 minutes, 49 seconds)
video and has no educational, social, financial or practical value whatsoever. I just took the camera and shot whatever I
had the chance to.
It's on YOUtube, and it's worth a look. For those who can't watch it at work because some facilities block streaming video, it's also
available on Google Video. It's also streaming video, unfortunately, but the Google Video file has the added advantage of being downloadable,
which means you can download it to a storage device, like a flash drive or even a CD and show from the drive or CD.
It was an experiment, so there's no real coherence or plot, but it fun to watch.
If you can, please drop me a comment whether you'd like to see more of this kind of thing.
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Join Your Fellow Pharmacy Buyers
at the 12th Annual Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference at the Las Vegas Hilton, August 11-14, 2008
As the only national meeting exclusively for Pharmacy
Buyers, the 12th Annual Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference offers a unique opportunity for Pharmacy Purchasing
Professionals in all disciplines and work settings to come together to learn the latest trends in Pharmacy Purchasing.
Pharmacy
Purchasing is one of the most neglected, but important, specialties within the Profession of Pharmacy. Pharmacy Purchasing Outlook newsletter (PPO),
has been the independent resource for the institutional pharmacy purchasing profession since March of 1994, and since
1997, also conducted and hosted Annual Conferences for this profession.
The 12th Annual Pharmacy
Purchasing Networking Conference will be held this August 11-14 at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel in Nevada. Last year’s event was one of
the most important gatherings of pharmacy purchasing professionals to date. No
other conference focuses on institutional pharmacy purchasing and group purchasing as this event does, with an estimated 10
hours of CE available for Technicians, Buyers, and Pharmacists, including the elusive 1 hour of Pharmacy Law required for
PTCB re-certification.
Also
note, new or current PPO subscriber can save about 30% on the Registration Fee to our annual conferences (this option
is available on the Buyer Registration Form).
Approximately 400 Pharmacy Purchasing Professionals
and 80 Sponsoring drug companies, gather in Las Vegas for
one purpose and one purpose only - to hear educational sessions geared towards Pharmacy Buyers, and to network with fellow
Buyers.
All this, set in the Las Vegas Hilton, one of Vegas'
iconic hotels, which also has a convenient monorail stop right in one of the main areas of the hotel that will take you up
& down the Strip, which stops at many of the other Strip hotels. The 12th Annual Pharmacy Purchasing Networking Conference is the only sure thing in Vegas!
A
sample of the programs being offered this year:
“A Tale of 2 Cities - Disaster Relief From 1,100 miles Away, & How to Implement such Relief
Efforts in your Facility.”
Presented by: Christopher Arendt, PharmD, Pharmacotherapy Coordinator,
and Deb Nelson, Pharmacy Purchasing Supervisor, Mayo Clinic, Rochester,
Minnesota.
“Pig Guts & Cow Lungs: The Chinese Heparin Connection.”
Presented by Kevin Hoehn, PharmD, BCPS, CGP, Pharmacy Clinical Coordinator, Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, New York.
“USP Chapter <797> Updates for 2008.”
Presented by Eric Kastango, RPh, FASHP, President, ClinicalIQ, LLC,
Florham Park, New Jersey; Member of the U.S. Pharmacopoeia Sterile Compounding Committee.
Sponsored by Acute Care Pharmaceuticals.
Preparing the Pharmacy for Bar-Coded Medication Administration.”
Co-Presented by Erin Claiborne, DPh, Pharmacy Manager, and Nancy Rayner, CPhT, Pharmacy Buyer,
both from Jane Phillips Medical
Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.
This
is now a chance for you to connect with hundreds of other pharmacy purchasing professionals across the country. If you have any suggestions or questions, please call
any of our knowledgeable staff members at 858-581-6373, or send an email to: info@PharmacyPurchasing.com.
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