Pharmacy Owner Back Office · Healthcare practices

How AI Helps Pharmacists

Independent pharmacists juggle prior auths, audits and staff scheduling on top of dispensing. 12² builds templates and document workflows around the pharmacy system.

Pharmacy Owner Back Office · From $3,500 + $399/mo, by team size · proposed estimate · It says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly, and your team reviews what it drafts before it goes out.

Short answer

Ai for independent pharmacies: the short answer.

12² builds AI for pharmacists that takes on the routine work: drafting prior-authorization requests for review, organizing audit document requests, drafting staff schedules and summarizing payer emails. It runs inside the tools you already use. Pharmacists make every dispensing decision.

Sources

  • HHS: vendors handling PHI for a provider are business associates and need a BAAhhs.gov
  • General office-writing evidence, not a study of this job: in an RCT, ChatGPT cut professional writing time 40% and raised quality (Noy & Zhang, Science 2023)news.mit.edu

Research figures above describe the cited studies, not results 12² promises. Results vary. Disclosures

Where the time goes

Where the hours go now.

01

Drafting prior-authorization requests

Independent pharmacists juggle prior auths, audits and staff scheduling on top of dispensing.

02

Audit document requests

The same requests arrive all day, often when nobody is free to answer.

03

Staff schedules and policy updates

Rebuilt from scratch each time, usually at the end of the day.

Scope

What it handles, and what it never does.

What it handles

  • Drafting prior-authorization requestsIt drafts prior-authorization requests for pharmacist review.
  • Audit document requestsIt organizes audit document requests.
  • Staff schedules and policy updatesIt drafts staff schedules and policy updates.
  • Payer and wholesaler emailsIt summarizes payer and wholesaler emails.
  • Hand-off to your teamAnything that needs a person goes to the right person, with the details attached.

What it never does

  • Make up a price or a factIt works only from the documents, records and price lists you give it. Anything it can't find goes to your team.
  • Promise a resultQuestions about outcomes go to the person who does the work.
  • Pretend to be a personIt says it is an automated assistant whenever it talks to someone directly.
  • Make a clinical decisionClinicians decide. It handles the paperwork and messages around them.
  • Send anything on its ownDrafts wait for your team's approval before anything goes out.
How it's tested

Built and tested on your own work.

Before handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.

  • Tested on your own workBefore handoff, we run your build on your own real examples and fix anything that misses.
  • Retainer, then balance on deliveryRetainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.
  • Fixed price, scope and timelineAll three in writing before work starts. The timeline is set in your quote.
  • What 12² buildsTemplates and document workflows around the pharmacy system.
  • How it connectsWe confirm how it connects to your pharmacy system on the first call and write it into your quote.

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Price

From $3,500 + $399/moSetup + monthly, by size. The monthly fee covers monitoring, fixes and re-tests for your package as your templates, documents and staff change. AI and software usage is billed at cost. Proposed starting estimates by team size, not fixed prices; the final price is in a written quote.

  • Small: Small practice (1-4 staff, one location)From $3,500 + $399/mo. The core build for 1-4 staff, one location: templates and document workflows around the pharmacy system. Proposed estimate. Small tier; monthly covers hosting, monitoring and fixes. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
  • Mid-size: Mid-size practice (5-19 staff)From $7,500 + $750/mo. Everything in Small practice, for more users, inboxes and calendars, with hand-off rules set for each role. Proposed estimate. More users, locations or integrations. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
  • Enterprise: Enterprise (20+ staff or several locations)From $15,000 + $1,500/mo, custom quote. Everything in Mid-size practice, across locations or departments, with system integrations and a security review scoped in your custom quote. Proposed estimate floor; scope, integrations and security review set the final number. No cap. Matches the live 12squared.ai ladder for this industry.
  • Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass. Scope, price and timeline are agreed in writing before work starts.
  • You own itThe accounts, scripts, templates and data sit in your name. You can leave at any time.
  • Compliance and dataHIPAA: 12² discusses HIPAA requirements, including whether a BAA is needed, before any PHI is involved; data stays in the practice's systems; clinicians make every clinical decision and review anything sent to patients. Pharmacists make every clinical and dispensing decision.
  • HIPAAWe discuss your HIPAA requirements, including whether a business associate agreement is needed, before any patient data is involved.
  • Not professional adviceNot medical advice: clinicians make every clinical decision. HIPAA compliance stays with your practice and its vendors; we discuss your HIPAA requirements, including whether a business associate agreement is needed, before any patient data is involved. 12² builds software and automations. It is not a licensed professional in your field, and your team makes every professional decision. Disclosures
FAQ

Straight answers.

Does it touch dispensing?

No. It handles paperwork around it.

How does payment work?

Retainer up front. Work starts once the retainer is paid; the balance is due on delivery when the agreed test cases pass.

How long does it take?

Timelines are set per project in the quote, after we see your systems and volume.

Are these prices final?

No. They are proposed starting estimates. You get a written custom quote after a short scoping call.

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