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BioScrip, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical healthcare organization, provides medications and management solutions for chronic and other healthcare conditions in the United States. It operates through two segments, Specialty Pharmacy Services and Traditional Pharmacy Services. The Specialty Pharmacy Services segment provides specialty pharmacy distribution and therapy management services. Specialty pharmacy services distribution occurs locally through community pharmacies, centrally through mail order facilities, and through its infusion pharmacies for patients requiring infused medications in the home or infused at various sites, including the companys ambulatory infusion sites. As of December 31, 2009, it owned and operated 43 specialty pharmacies comprising community, mail order, and infusion pharmacies. This segment primarily focuses on serving patient populations with chronic health conditions, including psoriasis; growth hormones, thyroid cancer; sickle cell anemia/thalassemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, and bleeding disorders/hemophilia; multiple sclerosis and neuropathies; in office infusions and oral oncolytics; rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and osteoporosis; solid organ and bone marrow transplant; and HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, and respiratory syncytial virus. The Traditional Pharmacy Services segment consists of traditional mail service pharmacy fulfillment, prescription discount card programs, and pharmacy benefit management services. This segment offers clinical, formulary, benefit design, drug usage evaluation, pharmacy data, and mail order pharmacy dispensing services; and discount prescription card programs. The company distributes pharmaceuticals, and provides clinically focused case and disease management programs to healthcare payors, including managed care organizations, government-funded and/or operated programs, third party administrators, and self-funded employer groups. BioScrip, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is based in Elmsford, New York.
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