Reward Programs for NPPA Members
National Pharmacy Purchasing Association (NPPA) pharmacy members are eligible for monetary rewards by participating in our various Member Reward Programs. Refer drug company vendors to become exhibitors at our Annual NPPA Conference, or new pharmacy buyers or managers to attend the conference. Refer a brand-new pharmacy attendee (buyer or director/manager) to attend the conference and get a discount off your own registration fee. With each newly signed up NPPA pharmacy member, receive a credit towards your next membership renewal. Write an article to be shared with your fellow NPPA members on our website or in our next e-newsletter. It’s easier than you realize to get rewarded for your efforts in contributing to and supporting your pharmacy buyer association!
If you are a current NPPA pharmacy member and send us an article you’ve written about your job that we post to our NPPA website and/or include in one of our RxBuyer e-newsletters, we will pay you for your efforts! For a published article between 300-550 words, you will receive $40. For an article that’s published with 600 words or more, you will receive $60.
Note that we edit for spelling, style, and grammar as necessary, so there’s no need to be concerned—it’s content that we’re looking for.
Most Pharmacy Buyers typically learn by trial-and-error and from personal experience. In addition, many don’t have additional purchasing colleagues at their facilities to confer with and talk shop. When Buyers read how others in their field have met challenges, solved problems, innovated, and accomplished projects, it can not only be helpful but inspiring. Each article, no matter the length, can provide a new perspective on the Pharmacy Buyer experience to share with and encourage your fellow buyer-colleagues across the country. And having articles that are used by a national association that represents your profession can benefit your career growth.
If you aren’t sure what to write about, here are some suggestions:
- A project or change that you instituted which helped your department or facility.
- Something specific you learned at one of the Annual NPPA Conferences or elsewhere that helps your daily
routine or department run more efficiently. - Your experience from attending a past NPPA Conference (such as in terms of networking with other Buyers).
We hope you are inspired to write and send us your thoughts, challenges, ideas and solutions; it doesn’t have to be a long dissertation. Also, everyone enjoys a story or anecdote, so consider writing your article including those elements or approach (if suitable for your topic). Your colleagues will appreciate it!
Send your article by email as an attached Word document to: Board@PharmacyPurchasing.com
Many Pharmacy Buyers across the country remain unaware of NPPA. We greatly depend on word of mouth to help us spread the word to other Buyers you know, work with, or have as customers.
Tell Buyers you know about getting involved in supporting NPPA—the first ever devoted to Pharmacy Buyers—and suggest they visit our website (www.PharmacyPurchasing.com) for more information and to access membership order forms on our Join NPPA page (or call us between 8am to 4pm Pacific Time for questions or to apply by phone).
When a new Buyer signs up to become an NPPA member, ask them to share your name with us as the referring member to receive a 20% discount off your next membership renewal.
Refer a new Pharmacy Attendee (buyer or director/manager) to attend the NPPA Conference—to get $45 credited toward your registration fee in the following year. The new person you refer must be a first-time NPPA attendee.
NPPA depends greatly on word-of-mouth recommendations to reach new pharmacy buyers who haven’t yet heard about us. As we are sure you realize, it is very challenging to cold-call hospital pharmacies and actually be able to speak to the buyer or manager at the time (or get a return call). It’s even difficult to send our brochures by U.S. mail so they end up reaching the right person in pharmacy, when we’re only able to address it to a generic pharmacy buyer’s attention.
To thank our NPPA pharmacy members for spreading the word about our Annual Conference to the vendors that call on them, we instituted an Exhibitor Referral Award program so that if you successfully refer a vendor to become an exhibitor at the NPPA Conference, you’ll be rewarded for your effort. Not only do we award for new companies, but it even applies to vendors who had previously exhibited (after 3 years of not doing so). See rate schedule by exhibitor level as follows, along with details on how to successfully refer an exhibitor.
Referral Commission –
NEW Conference Exhibitors
A company that has not participated in the
Conference in any form within the last 3 years.
Bronze: $200
Silver: $300
Gold: $400
Platinum: $500
Diamond: $600
Referral Commission –
Previous Exhibitors
Those who were Exhibitors at one of the
Conferences in the last 3 years.
Bronze: $100
Silver: $200
Gold: $300
Platinum: $400
Diamond: $500
Awards for successful referrals may, at the NPPA member’s choice, either go to the member or the member’s pharmacy department or facility/health system. Awards will only be funded if the company’s exhibit order is submitted with the name of the referring NPPA member, and after the company’s final payment is received by NPPA.
The Exhibitor Prospectus brochures have a place on their order form pages to note the referral of an NPPA member. Next time you speak to a vendor, simply ask them to add your name and facility to that page before sending their order to NPPA for processing.
Or as an alternative, we will also accept written confirmation via email from a representative at the exhibiting company within 2 weeks prior to or 2 weeks after the date that NPPA receives the exhibitor’s initial order. Vendor reps can send that to NPPA’s exhibit management team at ExhibitInfo@PharmacyPurchasing.com (no verbal confirmations can be accepted).
If you’d like to point out more about NPPA to vendors, you can send them to our website’s home page where they can easily go from there.
The Prospectus can be found on our Exhibitor Information page after we open for exhibitor orders early in the new year.