Atlantic Pharmaceutical Services Incorporated (APSI) is a small information technology (IT) company owned by the Pharmacy Association of Nova. APSI's mandate is to: "Use, where possible, information technology to maximize pharmacy returns."
Presently APSI provides by subscription, APSI price guides to pharmacies in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island as well as a number of insurers and or claims processors across Canada. APSI also provides a searchable data base for PSEUDO-DINS.
ABOUT THE APSI PRICE GUIDES
The APSI Price Guides are available, by province (NS, NB, NF, PEI), through this site and by mail, and are based on the generally agreed upon level of reimbursements to pharmacies by public or private third party payers in the respective province. Subscribers and payers are not obliged to charge or reimburse at the APSI level, as this is a matter between the pharmacy and the payor.
For more information on subscriptions to the regional APSI Price Guides click here.
ABOUT THE PSEUDO-DIN DATABASE
As you are aware the web-based pseudo-DIN database called OPINIONS, which stands for the Online Product Identification Number Index of Nova Scotia, was started in June of 2003 by Atlantic Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (APSI), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Pharmacy Association of Nova Scotia (PANS) and has been under construction for a number of years. OPINIONS provides pharmacists with an easy to use, searchable database of products and services that have been assigned Pseudo-DINS (PINS) which are used by payers to reimburse pharmacies for products and services. Until now we have offered the database free of charge to anyone wishing to acquire Pseudo DINS for their products and to those who subscribe to APSI. This free trial period was scheduled to last for three months back in 2003 but was still in place up to December 2009. Because of the popularity of the program and the additional workload involved we have determined that we can no longer sustain the program without funding. Please click here to access our new fee schedule. We apologize for any interuption in service that this may cause.
Thank you for making OPINIONS the great program that it has proved to be.
Note: Subscribers to APSI will still receive access to OPINIONS.
