Red Book 2003 Book

Celebrating 107 years of service, Red Book remains pharmacy's most reliable source for accurate product information for prices on prescription drugs, OTC items, and reimbursable medical supplies. With valuable clinical and pharmaceutical reference information, Red Book is the essential resource healthcare professionals reach for every day. The New 2003 Red Book, with extensive updating and additions, not only brings you the latest pricing and product information on over 100,000 Rx and OTC items, but also includes a broad spectrum of the healthcare information you need - all in one volume - to cope with pharmacy's changing role in the medical, pharmaceutical, and retail marketplace. With healthcare rapidly changing, there is still one source you can rely on - comprehensive Red Book pricing and descriptive information, including:

• Practice management section
• Nationally-recognized average wholesale prices (AWPs), direct prices, and federal upper limit prices for prescription drugs
• Suggested retail prices for OTC products
• NDC numbers for all FDA-approved drugs
• Complete package information including dosage form, route of administration, strength, and size
• "Orange Book" codes - FDA-approved drug products with therapeutic equivalent evaluations You'll also find these convenient extra reference features:
• Vitamin Comparison Table: Amounts of vitamins and minerals in over 50 popular multivitamin products.
• Common Laboratory Values: Answers to the most common patient questions about urine sugar level, cholesterol, blood pressure, and more.
• Guide to Leading Herbal/Alternative Medicines
• Pharmacy Buying Groups: Group Purchasing Organizations in the pharmaceutical marketplace
• NCPDP Billing Standards In addition, RED BOOK is continually evolving to help you meet the challenges of the changing healthcare environment. Offering a wealth of reference information, Red Book delivers the instant answers you need to make decisions that affect your business. You'll find such helpful items as:
• Summaries of the drug-food, drug-alcohol, and drug-tobacco interactions that you can also adapt for patient use
• Sugar-free, alcohol-free, lactose and galactose-free and sulfite- containing product listings for customers with special needs
• A complete list of FDA-approved new molecular entities, generics, and OTC products
• Comprehensive manufacturer, pharmaceutical wholesaler, and third party administrator directories