Doctors embracing generic drug dispensing kiosks

Doctors embracing generic drug dispensing kiosks
June 23, 2008

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Health insurers hoping to convince physicians to bypass their offices' brand-name sample drug "closets" are embracing an ATM-like generic drug dispensing machine. Highmark Inc. for the past five years has partnered with MedVantx Inc. of San Diego, which places the generic drug machine in physician offices, free of charge to doctor and patient. "We wanted to encourage the use of generics when we began a pilot study in 2003," said Eric Culley, Highmark's manager of Clinical Pharmacy Services. Most insurers in the area are using the MedVantx system, he said.