Other Words for Pharmacy

Pharmacy Noun Synonyms
pharmaceutics, pharmacopoeia
Research has vastly expanded modern pharmacy.

dispensary, Rather formal or apothecary, chemist's (shop), drugstore, druggist's
Stop off at the pharmacy and get me something for this headache, please.

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Mail-Order Pharmacy Programs

Health / Health Insurance / Mail-Order Pharmacy Programs: Programs that offer drugs ordered and delivered through the mail to plan members at a reduced cost. MORE

Pharmacy And Therapeutics Committee

Health / Health Insurance / Pharmacy And Therapeutics Committee: Committee charged with developing a formulary, reviewing changes to that formulary, and reviewing abnormal prescription utilization patterns by providers. MORE

Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Plan

Health / Health Insurance / Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Plan: A type of managed care specialty service organization that seeks to contain the costs, while promoting safer and more efficient use, of prescription drugs or pharmaceuticals. Also known as a prescript MORE

Prior Authorization

Health / Health Insurance / Prior Authorization: In the context of a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) plan, a program that requires physicians to obtain certification of medical necessity prior to drug dispensing. Also known as a medical-necessity MORE

Physician Profiling

Health / Health Insurance / Physician Profiling: In the context of a pharmacy benefit plan, the process of compiling data on physician prescribing patterns and comparing physicians' actual prescribing patterns to expected patterns within select drug MORE

Pharmaceutical Cards

Health / Health Insurance / Pharmaceutical Cards: Identification cards issued by a pharmacy benefit management plan to plan members. These cards assist PBMs in processing and tracking pharmaceutical claims. Also known as drug cards or prescription ca MORE