2004 Red Book: Pharmacy's Fundamental Reference FROM THE PUBLISHER
Pharmacy's Fundamental Reference for over 100 years!
Celebrating 108 years of service, RED BOOK remains pharmacy's most reliable source for product information for prices on prescription drugs, OTC items, and reimbursable medical supplies. With valuable clinical and pharmaceutical reference information, RED BOOK is the essential resource healthcare professionals reach for every day.
The NEW 2004 RED BOOK, with extensive updating and additions, not only brings you the latest pricing and product information on over 100,000 Rx and OTC items, but also includes a broad spectrum of the healthcare information you need - all in one volume - to cope with pharmacy's changing role in the medical, pharmaceutical, and retail marketplace.
With healthcare rapidly changing, there is still one source for all your needs - comprehensive RED BOOK pricing and descriptive information, including:
Practice management
Nationally recognized average wholesale prices (AWPs), direct prices, and federal upper limit prices for prescription drugs
Suggested retail prices for OTC products
NDC numbers for all FDA-approved drugs
Complete package information including dosage form, route of administration, strength, and size
"Orange Book" codes - FDA-approved drug products with therapeutic equivalent evaluations
You'll also find these convenient extra reference features:
Vitamin Comparison Table: Amounts of vitamins and minerals in over 50 popular multivitamin products
Common Laboratory Values: Answers to the most common patient questions about urine sugar level, cholesterol, blood pressure, and more
Guide to Leading Herbal/Alternative Medicines
Pharmacy Buying Groups: Group Purchasing Organizations in the pharmaceutical marketplace
NCPDP Billing Standards
In addition, RED BOOK is continually evolving to help you meet the challenges of the changing healthcare environment. Offering a wealth of reference information, RED BOOK delivers the instant answers you need to make decisions that affect your business. You'll find such helpful items as:
Summaries of the drug-food, drug-alcohol, and drug-tobacco interactions that you can adapt for patient use
Sugar-free, alcohol-free, lactose-, and galactose-free, and sulfite- containing product listings for customers with special needs
A complete list of FDA-approved new molecular entities, generics, and OTC products
Comprehensive manufacturer, pharmaceutical wholesaler, and third-party administrator directories
Full-color photographs of hundreds of Rx and OTC products