Five Ways Float Unlocks Top and Bottom Line Growth, According to Specialty Pharmacists

Ask any specialty pharma professional working in 2025: the landscape is becoming more complex and competitive by the day. Between rising operational costs, ongoing staffing challenges, and a surge in both the number of specialty drugs available and the volume of patients requesting them, pharmacy leaders nationwide are feeling the pressure—as the already massive market continues to balloon.

Are you looking for new ways to optimize your pharmacy’s revenue generation and cost management? Through Float’s partnerships with over 100 specialty pharmacies—including industry leaders like Optum, CVS, Option Care, and Alliance RX—we’ve learned what it takes to drive measurable growth in an ever-changing landscape.

Here’s what pharmacy leaders are telling us about Float’s impact on their operations.

#1: Every inbound prescription can be filled—Float sources nurses in minutes

The biggest threat to a specialty pharmacy’s bottom line is also the simplest: having to turn away prescriptions due to staffing constraints. Whether your in-house nursing staff has geographic coverage gaps or your nursing agency creates scheduling inflexibility, specialty pharmacies are often forced to decline or delay patient treatments—even when they want the revenue.

Float’s marketplace model eliminates this revenue leakage by sourcing qualified local nurses within minutes. Our AI-powered platform maintains a vetted network of experienced infusion specialists across California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Nevada, and expanding markets, ensuring that every inbound prescription can be accepted and fulfilled.

In addition to the financial benefits of higher visit volumes, reliable staffing also contributes to better patient health outcomes. When patients with chronic conditions like multiple sclerosis or immune deficiencies require specialty medicine on a routine basis, Float’s staffing system enables pharmacies to meet their time-sensitive needs on time, every time.

With Float ensuring nurse availability never becomes a bottleneck, patients can get healthier, and pharmacies can increase their monthly visit volume.

#2: Every recurring visit is staffed, rescheduled, and adjusted with minimal go-between

Recurring patient visits can be a boon for specialty pharmacy revenue, but managing ongoing schedules can quickly become an administrative nightmare. Many pharmacies rely on analog systems, such as Rolodexes and phone calls, to coordinate between their team, the nurse, and the patient, making last-minute schedule changes nearly impossible to accommodate.

Float’s platform automates much of this coordination burden through intelligent scheduling algorithms that account for nurse availability, patient preferences, and medication timing requirements. When those inevitable changes arise—like a patient traveling or a nurse calling in sick—the platform instantly identifies and deploys alternative coverage.

As with stable staffing, this scheduling automation translates directly to improved patient retention and adherence rates. When patients know their visits will be consistently staffed and can be easily rescheduled as needed, they’re more likely to maintain their treatment regimens in the long term and choose your pharmacy above others.

Higher adherence rates result in more billable visits and stronger relationships with prescribing physicians, who in turn see better patient outcomes.

The efficiency gains are substantial: Pharmacy teams that use Float report saving hours per day on scheduling coordination, freeing up staff to focus on patient care, medication management, and other revenue-generating tasks.

#3: Float nursing costs 25% less than hiring in-house nursing

Though hiring in-house nurses has been the traditional strategy, from a cost perspective, maintaining their base salaries is just the tip of the iceberg. After calculating the total cost of ownership—including benefits, management overhead, training expenses, non-productive time, and geographic limitations—the financial burden often exceeds sustainable margins.

Consider the efficiency factors: in-house nurses typically spend 40-55% of their time on non-billable activities like travel between patients, administrative tasks, and training. Float nurses, by contrast, are deployed strategically to maximize patient-facing time while our platform handles scheduling, documentation, and coordination tasks.

Additionally, Float’s model eliminates the geographical constraints that plague in-house teams. Rather than hiring nurses for specific territories and dealing with uneven patient distribution, specialty pharmacies can access nursing coverage wherever their patients are located

The result? **Float’s marketplace model delivers an average of 23-25% cost savings compared to in-house nursing across our active markets. **

#4: Nurses chart via Float’s EMR instead of paper systems

One of the most common pain points for specialty pharmacies is efficiently and accurately submitting documentation. Many pharmacies still rely on paper-based systems or outdated EMRs, creating bottlenecks in the charting process and increasing the risk of compliance issues.

That’s why our pharmacy partners consistently cite Float’s integrated EMR system as one of their favorite features. It streamlines documentation from the referral to the final submission, with nurses charting directly on mobile devices during patient visits.

By owning and maintaining the EMR internally, Float makes responsive updates specific to each partner, ensuring that documentation remains adaptable to evolving pharmacy needs and new treatments that come online. This digital-first approach means that:

• All required clinical data, medication administration details, and patient responses are captured in real-time.
• Pharmacy teams then receive immediate access to completed charts, enabling faster review cycles
• The transcription errors associated with paper systems are greatly reduced.

Together, these benefits ultimately reduce the risk of chart bouncebacks that can delay reimbursement and create administrative headaches.

#5: Charts and supporting reimbursement documents are submitted instantly

Is your working capital consistently tied up in delayed reimbursement? Perhaps the most immediate impact on specialty pharmacy cash flow comes from Float’s automated reimbursement processing, which makes revenue cycles more predictable by closing the 30-60 day gap between visit completion and insurance submission.

Immediately following a home visit, Float automatically generates and submits all required reimbursement documentation. This includes clinical charts, medication administration records, physician orders, and any payer-specific forms required for processing.

Float’s approach enhances the accuracy of documentation, and as any pharmacy leader knows, clean claims reduce denials, thereby lowering the administrative costs associated with appeals and resubmissions.

The financial impact is crystal clear: Faster reimbursement cycles improve cash flow predictability.

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Through AI-powered nurse sourcing, automated scheduling coordination, cost-effective staffing models, streamlined documentation, and accelerated reimbursement cycles, Float enables specialty pharmacies to focus on what they do best: providing exceptional patient care and building sustainable business growth.

Ready to explore how Float can drive growth for your specialty pharmacy? Visit www.FloatHealth.com to learn more about our marketplace model and schedule a demo with our team.