Pharmacy supply chain intelligence
Every place in America that can fill a prescription.
The dispensing side and the drug side of the same supply chain, built from federal sources, with the date each one was read attached to every number.
The count
How many pharmacies are in the United States.
The federal registry holds more records than there are pharmacies. Rather than pick a number, here is the subtraction.
- 113,391registry rows carrying a pharmacy taxonomy
- −2,117individual practitioner records, whose addresses are often homes and are suppressed
- 111,274organization records
- −18,330long term care, institutional, mail order, specialty, nuclear, and home infusion
- 92,944retail and unspecified records
- −10,409records at a street address another retail record already holds
- 82,535distinct retail pharmacy street addresses
The cross-check settles a common assumption. None of these records are deactivated, so the distance between the registry total and the figure the trade press uses is not dead registrations. It is format mix and co-location, which is a different problem with a different fix.
Coverage
What the index holds.
The dispensing side and the drug side sit on one model, so a shortage can be traced to the plant that makes the product and to the facilities that could fill the gap.
Eleven formats
Retail, long term care, specialty, mail order, compounding, nuclear, home infusion, institutional, clinic, managed care, and unspecified. 54.9% of pharmacies hold more than one of these at the same time.
115,152 drug products
Every marketed product by NDC across 5,299 labeler codes, with dosage form, route, and marketing category. Shortage and recall records attach here and refresh daily.
97 outsourcing facilities
Every registered 503B facility in the country, with registration history, last inspection, Form 483 status, and whether it compounds sterile preparations from bulk substances.
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Method
How the data is built.
Every source is federal and public. You can open the same files and get the same answer.
Every fact carries a date
Licenses and statuses render with the issuing body, the status, the date the record was read, and a link to it. Facts are appended rather than overwritten, so a question about last quarter has an answer.
Records match by identifier first
Then by address, then by name. Every match keeps the score and the evidence behind it, and a person can overturn one without a schema change.
Facilities and products
Dispensing locations, drug products, and the registered plants that make them. The graph carries no patient, prescription, or claims data, which is enforced in the schema.
Early access
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The data is loaded and the maps run. We are working with a small number of organizations first. If this is close to something you already pay for or do by hand, say so and we will come back with specifics.
You will get a reply from a person. You can also write to hello@bomrx.com.