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The best health care a clinician can provide is ineffective if patients cannot afford or do not take their medications. Therefore, in 1995, AUCH established the Pharmacy Services Program (PSP) to provide reduced cost medications for patients of member community health centers.
Through an agreement with Smith's Food and Drug, community health center patients receive prescriptions from a Smith's Pharmacy in the neighborhood of the health center. The PSP program is made possible under a federal law (Veteran's Health Care Act of 1992, P.L. 102-585, Sec. 602 and Sec. 340B of the Public Health Services Act) that requires drug manufacturers to provide pharmaceutical products at reduced prices to patients of Federally Qualified Health Centers and other eligible entities.
AUCH was the first statewide organization to access pharmaceuticals in this manner and continues to be used as a model for other programs.
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures Forum, the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program provides access to reduced price prescription drugs to over 12,404 health care facilities certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as "covered entities". These clinics, centers and hospitals serve more than 10 million people in all 50 states, plus commonwealths and territories.
Pharmacy Services Program: Current Formulary
