Corporate Business Units

For 175 years, McKesson has been a health care industry leader, helping our customers attain the power to succeed. Ranked 18th on the FORTUNE 500 with more than $101 billion in annual revenue, we are the nation's leading health care services company, providing the pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, information and automation technologies, resources and connections that improve care quality while reducing health care costs.

With an unmatched range of products and services and the largest customer base in the industry, we are uniquely capable of providing solutions that empower our customers and touch the lives of patients in every health care setting:
  • 200,000 physicians
  • 26,000 retail pharmacies
  • 10,000 long-term care sites
  • 5,000 hospitals
  • 2,000 medical-surgical manufacturers
  • 750 home care agencies
  • 600 health care payors
  • 450 pharmaceutical manufacturers

Focused on customer results, McKesson provides solutions that improve the quality of care, increase patient safety, reduce unnecessary costs, synthesize information for physicians, enhance productivity, free up pharmacists to counsel patients and empower the evolution of health care.


Corporate Business Units


McKesson Distribution Solutions delivers pharmaceuticals to retail pharmacies and institutional providers like hospitals and health systems. We operate 31 pharmaceutical distribution centers across the country, serving customers in all 50 states. We also deliver a comprehensive offering of health care products, technology, equipment and related services to the alternate site market, including physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care facilities and home care businesses across the country. McKesson is the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America and includes McKesson Canada and an equity holding in Nadro, a leading distributor in Mexico.

  • McKesson Pharmaceutical Distribution supplies branded, generic and over-the-counter pharmaceuticals to more than 40,000 customers in three primary segments: retail chains, independent retail pharmacies and institutional providers such as hospitals, health systems, integrated delivery networks and long-term care providers. We base our distribution excellence on electronic order processing, asset management tools, a commitment to Six Sigma methodology, order accuracy and supply chain safety. We work with our customers on solutions - including supply management technology, world-class marketing programs, managed care and repackaging products and services - that help them meet their business and quality goals.
     
  • McKesson Pharmacy Systems partners with more than 10,000 pharmacies across the U.S. With the industry's broadest portfolio of modern software solutions generally available, we provide an end-to-end pharmacy offering that can support other McKesson programs and automation in two unique delivery models: centralized or distributed.  For a truly individualized solution, pharmacists can choose a pharmacy management system, along with its underlying platform, and select supplemental modules like signature capture, point-of-sale, or workflow to best address their key performance requirements. 
     
  • McKesson Medical-Surgical delivers a comprehensive offering of health care products, equipment and related services to physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care facilities and home care settings
     
  • ZEE Medical is the No.1 full-service provider of first aid, safety and training solutions to businesses and worksites in North America. For nearly half a century, ZEE has helped employers maximize their productivity and minimize their liability associated with on-the-job injuries and illnesses by recommending and delivering a full line of quality first aid products.

  • Moore Medical is an Internet-enabled, multichannel marketer and distributor of more than 15,000 medical, surgical and pharmaceutical products to more than 100,000 health care practices and facilities in non-hospital settings nationwide.
     
  • McKesson Patient Relationship Solutions is dedicated to improving health outcomes by increasing patient awareness of pharmaceutical therapy options and adherence to prescribed drug regimens. Our innovative solutions help health care providers including pharmaceutical manufacturers, payors and medical device suppliers build appropriate relationships with their patients to improve the quality of patient care. McKesson offers the most comprehensive adherence solutions ranging from fully integrated patient loyalty cards, medication therapy management programs, call center support, automated outbound communications and high touch pharmacy outreach programs that taken together deliver to our customers customized solutions to their  therapy specific adherence challenges.  
     
  • McKesson Specialty Care Solutions has the unique expertise and experience to develop and implement innovative programs that serve pharmaceutical manufacturers, payors and providers throughout the entire pharmaceutical product lifecycles—from clinical trial, to commercial launch, to post-launch and brand maturation activities. Our services include market-leading reimbursement support services; specialty distribution and pharmacy services; oncology services; state-of-the-art call center; transaction-processing systems; comprehensive database management capabilities; superior adherence programs and robust patient support services including clinical support and patient assistance programs.

McKesson Technology Solutions is a leader in software, automation, services and consulting to hospitals, physician offices, imaging centers, home health care agencies and payors. We also provides interactive connectivity services that streamline clinical, financial and administrative communication between patients, providers, payors, pharmacies and financial institutions.  Our solutions are designed to improve patient safety, reduce the cost and variability of care, improve health care efficiency and better manage revenue streams and resources.

  • McKesson Provider Technologies automates health care delivery processes with a wide variety of clinical, financial and administrative software applications. Our portfolio of access management, revenue cycle and resource management solutions helps organizations increase cash flow, maximize use of resources, and standardize, measure and monitor key performance indicators. McKesson's clinical solutions help to improve quality, safety and efficiency with point-of-care documentation, order management, clinical decision support, diagnostic imaging and secure access to the complete electronic health record, including data, documents and medical images. Our Horizon Clinicals™ solution suite addresses specialized clinician workflow needs in various care settings. Automation solutions support hospitals' unique dispensing, inventory management and medication administration initiatives. The use of analytics facilitates regulatory compliance and helps organizations to improve their health care performance. McKesson also provides a complete solution for ambulatory settings such as home health and physician practices.  McKesson has a reach to 20 percent of all U.S. physicians, offering a complete solution for physician practices includes software, revenue cycle outsourcing and connectivity services. Solutions include practice management and electronic health records (EHR) software for physicians of every size, specialty or geographic location. We also provide outsourced billing and collection services as well as supplies and services that connect physicians with their patients, hospitals, retail pharmacies and payors.  We service homecare agencies with a complete solution, including telehealth and remote monitoring capabilities.
     
  • RelayHealth is an intelligent network that streamlines clinical, financial and administrative communication between patients, providers, payors, pharmacies and financial institutions. RelayHealth accelerates the delivery of high-quality care and improves financial performance through solutions such as those for online consultation of physicians by patients, electronic prescribing by physicians, point-of-service resolution of pharmacy claims by payors, pre-visit financial clearance of patients by providers, and post-visit settlement of provider bills by payors and patients. 
     
  • McKesson Health Solutions delivers collaborative solutions with unrivaled clinical integrity that enable payors, providers, employers and consumers to come together to transform the business and process of patient care. Our disease, case and demand management solutions help customers improve outcomes and reduce unnecessary utilization and its business intelligence and claims management tools help optimize business performance. Touching more than 160 million covered lives, our solutions are used by the top 25 managed care organizations, 90% of Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and more than 50% of hospitals, as well as by Medicaid programs, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veteran Affairs.



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