Know the margin before the bag is stapled
A dispensing event settles its own economics. Attergo prices the fill against acquisition cost the moment it adjudicates, holds the purchasing and inventory movements that produced that cost, and keeps the traceability record the supply chain requires. Nothing here waits for a month-end.
The decision and the number arrive weeks apart
A pharmacy learns what a fill earned when the remittance posts, and by then the same product has gone out the door many more times. Acquisition cost, contract terms and reimbursement all move independently, so a product that was profitable in one month quietly stops being so, and the only signal is a total that arrives too late to act on.
The mechanism behind it.
Every fill priced against what it cost to acquire
Acquisition, contract term and the amount received resolve to one figure per dispensing event, computed as the event lands rather than in a period close.
Purchasing informed by what actually pays
Inventory and purchasing read the same priced events, so a buying decision rests on the margin history of the item rather than on its movement alone.
Traceability kept as a record, not a project
Lot and transaction history is retained as the events arrive, so a traceability request is a query rather than a reconstruction.
The clinical work becomes a claim
Services a pharmacy already performs are recorded in a form that can be billed, so the revenue follows the work that was done rather than only the product that was dispensed.