Accreditation is the price of admission in specialty pharmacy. Payers require it. Manufacturers require it to grant access to limited-distribution drugs. And once you have it, you have to keep earning it, every three years, on a survey cycle that never really stops.
The problem isn’t that pharmacy teams don’t care about compliance. It’s that the standards run to roughly 100 pages of detailed, ever-changing requirements, and most pharmacies track them across a tangle of Word docs, spreadsheets, and sticky notes that breaks the moment a key staff member leaves. No one went to pharmacy school to manage version control on a policy binder.
This checklist is the map we wish every pharmacy had before its first survey. It’s organized the way accreditors actually evaluate you (by domain), and it works whether you’re pursuing first-time accreditation or maintaining readiness between cycles. We’ve used the same framework to help pharmacies earn more than 40 accreditations across 12 accrediting bodies, including URAC, ACHC, NABP, and The Joint Commission. In all that time, we’ve yet to onboard a pharmacy doing it alone that had everything covered. It’s genuinely hard. That’s the point of a checklist. Read more >
