Real-World Wins Behind The Counter: Turning Time-Consuming Pill Sortation Into $82K In Reclaimed Inventory
The Challenge
A Midwest-based LTC pharmacy serving 8,000 patients with multi-dose adherence pouches was losing valuable time and money to manual pill sorting. Staff were tied up hand-sorting unused medications, missing opportunities to recapture inventory, and absorbing unnecessary waste fees.
In practice, the pharmacy was only recapturing about 0.01% of their total produced pouches in its “return to stock” area. They were visually sifting through the piles of medication packages and skimming for the most expensive, or valuable, tablets and capsules. The rest, the pharmacy was putting to the side to be destroyed for a fee.
The Solution
By implementing JFCRx’s TruSort™ – the industry’s only automated, image-verified pill sortation device – the pharmacy eliminated tedious manual sorting and unlocked a new source of savings.
The pharmacy put technicians to the task of up to 10 hours each week on unpackaging medications and feeding TruSort. Instead of only focusing on the most expensive, they now were sorting most pills and letting TruSort work overnight to perform the automatic sortation.
Tom Rudolph, Director of Product Management, JFCRx notes, “For every pharmacy producing multi-dose packaging, the challenge has always been the same: mountains of unused medications with no efficient way to reclaim them. Until now, the only option was paying to destroy them or throwing a ton of labor at the problem to salvage a fraction of the initial inventory cost.”
The Results
In just 12 months, TruSort helped the pharmacy recapture 68,866 pills totaling $82,314.53 in returned inventory—transforming a costly process into a profitable one.
“What stands out in this case is how quickly TruSort turned a labor-intensive, low-yield process into a high-value operation,” Rudolph says. “The pharmacy went from manually reclaiming a handful of high-cost medications to systematically recovering tens of thousands of pills. Before TruSort, salvaging medications was a time-consuming task with minimal return. Now, even with a modest increase in labor investment, the savings far outstrip the labor cost. TruSort didn’t just save them money – it transformed a costly chore into a strategic advantage, proving that automation pays for itself quickly.”
Pharmacy Benefits of Automated Pill Sortation with TruSort
- Increased savings through recaptured medications
- Reduced waste fees from fewer discarded pills
- Time savings by eliminating manual hand sorting
- Lower cognitive load without tedious manual pill sortation
See what TruSort can unlock for your pharmacy: less waste, less labor, more savings, and a heightened focus on patient care. Claim those untapped savings and modernize your workflow with TruSort.