Ownership Academy: Pharmacy Buyers
If you have made the decision to buy a pharmacy or you want to open a pharmacy from scratch, NCPA has a full spectrum of resources to prepare you to make informed choices along the way to ownership. The Ownership Academy offers resources to help you select a location for your pharmacy, negotiate your lease and manage your inventory.
Other valuable tools will calculate inventory, inventory turns and gross margin return on investment. Check out IPMS and PBCS for current pharmacy listings by state.
» Ownership Workshop
» Convention Ownership Academy Live!
» Annual Convention and Trade Exposition
» Legislative Conference
Find continuing education (CE), to keep your license current and National Institute for Pharmacist Care Outcomes (NIPCO) Certificate programming to keep your clinical skills sharp. You will also find a wide variety of seminars/short courses, conferences, certificate programs, interactive presentations, and other development opportunities.
» Guide to Buying a Pharmacy: A How to Manual
» Effective Pharmacy Management CD-ROM
Develop and hone your management and ownership skills. Twenty chapters ranging
from entrepreneurship to employment law to marketing principles.
» Pharmacy Technician Training Program
This manual will serve as a superior training guide for you and your pharmacy
technicians. It is also ICPT endorsed for preparing technicians who will be
taking the Exam for the Certification of Pharmacy Technicians (ExCPT®).
» NCPA Employee Manual
Every well managed store needs one but developing an employee manual is no
easy task. NCPA has made it easy and convenient to customize an employee
manual for your pharmacy operation.
Members Only information about buying or selling a pharmacy through a Junior Partnership.
» Ownership Start Up Checklist
» Choosing A Pharmacy Location
» Managing The Inventory
» The Pharmacy Lease
» Pharmacy Financial Measures
» Inventory Cash Flow Management Calculator
» NCPA Digest, sponsored by Cardinal Health
Look up current figures from top-performing and median-reporting pharmacies
across the country to benchmark the performance of your business.
» Efficiency Calculator
» Cash Flow Calculator
» Profitability Calculator
» SBA Cash Flow Template
» Small Business Administration
» Texas Office of Rural Community Affairs Small Business
Surescripts encourages you to share your e-prescribing experiences via the Pharmacy E-Prescribing Experience Reporting Portal. They welcome all comments - whether you have suggestions for improvement or complaints about the process. The Portal is not a technical support site, rather its aim is to gather information to identify trends and system issues. Technical support issues should be reported to your pharmacy software vendor.
» Read tips to help stop drug diversion and protect your patients.
» Watch videos to learn more about robbery and diversion.
» Download the Pharmacy Security Checklist for common weak spots in pharmacy security.
» Get the RxPATROL Incident Report Form to communicate robbery details to the authorities.
» Discounts on Employee Background Screening Services and Closed Circuit TV Systems.
Buy-Sellapharmacy.com
Our firm functions as evaluators, appraisers and advisors to the world of independent community pharmacy buyers and sellers. Utilizing 21st Century technology tools and sophisticated financial modeling capabilities, we help buyers and sellers enter into a fair and equitable transaction, one which will withstand the test of time and provide each party to a transaction with what they expected. For the seller, a fair price and a qualified buyer. For the buyer, an economic outcome that will provide him or her with a reasonable return on invested capital, the ability to service any debt incurred and the ability to earn a salary commensurate with the managerial responsibilities and risks involved in owning one's own business. NCPA members are entitled to special discounts from our standard fee schedule on all professional services.
Prudential Consulting Broker Service
Prudential Consulting Broker Services will assist NCPA members either buying or selling
a pharmacy, find current listings online. PCBS will assist buyers in obtaining financing.
Exclusive—NCPA lifetime membership is included in buyer's transaction!
» Fraud, Waste and Abuse FAQ
» NCPA Employee Manual—customize policies and procedures (includes Medicare Part D FWA).
» PRS Compliance Program and Training Manual
» Preventing Fraud Waste and Abuse Training Program—NCPA is pleased to offer this
program to help community pharmacies prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.