The Dallas-based company will make 12 more drugs available to 71 hospitals around the country, including some in North Texas.
But this expansion will allow Community Health Systems to purchase 12 medications and antibiotics that will each treat symptoms for nausea in patients undergoing chemotherapy, infections, glaucoma, acid reflux, hyponatremia and other conditions.in selling medications at a 15% markup along with a $3 pharmacy fee and a $5 shipping cost is attracting the attention of hospital operators, said Cost Plus Drugs CEO and founder Dr. Alex Oshmyansky.
Cost Plus launched its wholesale market in February and Community Health Systems may be the first of many to capitalize on the low prices that Cuban’s startup is offering, Oshmyansky said.“We can’t say which hospitals, but we have a number of different hospital systems from around the country already working with us,” Oshmyansky said. “I think we’re starting to pick up steam and more are signing up every day. It’s onward and upward from here.