title: Here's some good medicine to supplement hospitals' efforts to stimulate pharmacies.
abstract: Hospitals started retail pharmacies with visions of revenues that would offset prospective payment shortages, but they soon found out that some key assumptions about profitability were off key. There are ways to tune the pharmacy operation, however, so it reaches out to its market and comes through for the hospital. Charles W. Murray explains some problems and solutions.
authors: C W
authors: CW
authors: Murray
mesh_terms: D016527:Drug Costs; D005252:Fees, Pharmaceutical; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods*; D010045:Outpatients; D010607:Pharmacy Service, Hospital / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States