EquiScript reviews

3.4

57% would recommend to a friend

(112 total reviews)

Mike Burkhold

68% approve of CEO

51% positive business outlook

EquiScript has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 112 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The EquiScript employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Healthcare industry (3.4 stars).

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112 reviews
1.0
Oct 21, 2021

Toxic Culture at a Sinking Ship

Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

It use to be good.

Cons

This company is going downhill partly due to the big drug makers' actions within the 340B landscape. Since senior leadership has very little expertise in 340B they don't know how to handle it. There is no congruity between departments and everyone just blames everyone else for their failures. Leadership from the operations team will encourage low level employees to focus only on patients who make the company a significant profit, in turn causing patients that they don't deem to make them enough money to miss out on getting their medications on time. They have the ability to track medication adherence but choose not to do so because they know the actual numbers would be so low. It will only be a matter of time until one of Equiscript's patients ends up in the hospital or even worst dies as a result of their lack of care for their patients. This company used to care about patients, but no longer does. The culture is horrible, and a majority of the company if asked wouldn't even be able to tell you what the company's cause is.

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EquiScript Response
4y
We appreciate your feedback, we do acknowledge that the 340B landscape is changing and as a result, it is important that we change along with it. We understand that change can be difficult and we have made strides in the last year to bring in people with more pharmacy and 340B experience so we can best serve our patients.
2.0
Jun 2, 2021

Lost touch with every aspect of pharmacy... do not work here.

Anonymous employee
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Pros

The patients are wonderful patient and caring. The individual contributors do care about things. Used to be a great place to work.

Cons

PTO policy is deceitful. Though it claims to have a generous PTO policy the ops department went from 2 people per 20 workers are allowed off to now 1 per 20 are allowed on a single day. This includes 3 independent teams that do not overlap calls), was told at one point that a child injury or sickness was considered unpaid leave because it wasn’t planned by management. While management (3 total on the ops side) can take time off whenever they want. Professionalism and favoritism: huge issue in this company. This company basically agrees with management even if it results in a hostile working environment for their workers. That it’s your “perception” of the situation. Management will quite literally gang up on people. They will hire people highly unsuited for jobs based on who they like. Professionalism is out the door expect your personal life to be on the table, being spoken about behind your back, and also just general behavior from management that Mimics high school like behavior. Racist behavior: Chinese lottery, eye rolling toward bipoc and other minority reps for the same questions that white reps ask, and overall just racist behaviors that are consistent. All ops management except for 1 member are white. Disregard for patients needs: requests for patient education for LGBTQIA+ and also those diagnosed needs outlined with the dsm-5 adults/kids was ignored multiple times even though this company handles both mental health high level of population within both minority groups. Was told that pronouns aren’t important for patients and educating ourselves on the topic don’t important. No expediting scripts: if the patient is not worth enough then the pharmacies cannot expedite drugs even if it’s the companies fault the patient is unable to get the rx. Data issues: constant fight to get clarity to see what the pharmacies have since the company is a third party results in SEVERE delays that are dangerous for the patients. Told to just “deal with it” due to internal processes that stop patient advocates to transfer patients directly to the pharmacy. Patients not called: patients not worth a minimum are often not called due to a Lack of focus on those lists, and also due to the system of calls only being done once a month to lower value patients. Resulting in patients not getting meds. Management double standard: management can’t take time off whenever they want, they can leave early, can take their kids to the park, or make dinner randomly on the middle of the day but, workers are lectured for making coffee, taking too much time to document calls, asking for time off, told to flex every moment of we have an emergency. Bullying behavior: during 1:1 and reviews instead of showing good and bad often instead what occurs is you are only told what you’re done wrong. Management clearly on the ops side things this motivates you to do better instead of highlighting what you’ve done right or wrong. Ceo & and cfo: have no idea what’s going on. They are so far from the day to day that all of this behavior goes unchecked due to them removing themselves so much. They allow directors, managers and superiors with zero to minimal pharmacy experience to “run” this pharmacy company into the ground. A company that continues to not hit budget numbers and missing the make more and more each month. Reviews (money related): severe delays in timelines for reviews resulting in how many get bonuses being delayed

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EquiScript Response
4y
Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad to read that you think our patients are great (they are) and that the team members we have taking care of our patients truly care about their wellbeing (they do). We are sorry that you are not satisfied with your time here at Equiscript. I can assure you that Equiscript takes any and all accusations of racism, bullying and other violations of business seriously. We maintain a confidential hotline for employee complaints in addition to a thorough investigation process.
2.0
Dec 6, 2021
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Remote Work, Great Coworkers, Generous PTO

Cons

Equiscript was originally a great company. Everyone who made the company great has left or has been laid off. I know CEO Michael Burkhold has pure intentions at heart, and I believe he is being misled by others and is steering away from the company’s core values. Due to cuts in the 340B prescription drug program, Equiscript had a mass layoff in 2020. We were ensured that this would prevent anything similar from happening in the near future. This year there was another mass layoff, and the employees that were affected were terminated immediately without any prior warning. They were booted from all systems immediately. There were demotions for the employees who did get to stay. There is so much uncertainty in this company and over time there is less and less transparency in what’s going on in the company. I did believe in this company’s mission, and I do believe that it’s for a good cause, but the company is on a steady decline and the employees have suffered because of the company’s latest and current approach to solving the “issues” at hand. I don’t know the direction Equiscript will go in the near future. But they should start with changing their attitude towards employees. It has gone from great to very poor in a very short amount of time. Equiscript will eventually lose their best employees if they haven’t already. This company will crumble in due time and has completely lost sight of the mission. I believe Michael needs to take back charge and stop letting other people dictate the future of his company. I truly believe that other individuals in leadership are tarnishing the Equiscript name, which Michael has worked so hard to build. It hurts to write this review, seeing where the company was headed to where the company is now going.

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EquiScript Response
4y
We are glad that you enjoy working with Equiscript, we are happy to have you on our team. Unfortunately, like many other companies we have experienced some turnover this year, this a result of a lot of change in the industry. We are hopeful that we are putting the right people in place to lead us into the next phase of Equiscript.
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