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PRESS RELEASE 120 West Germantown Pike, Suite 200 For information contact: Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Tom Behlau, Chief Operating Officer www.quiqmeds.com 610-828-7221 For Immediate Release: October 25, 2006 Inexpensive Generic Drugs Now Available With Added Convenience – At Your Doctor’s Office Discount stores aren’t the only places where consumers can now get low-cost generic drugs. With the advent of the new QuiqMeds system in the Philadelphia region, several of the area’s larger physician practices also offer competitive pricing on widely- prescribed generic drugs, with the added convenience of having the prescription filled right at the physician’s office, with no waiting and no extra drive time. Generic drugs, typically far less expensive than their brand-name counterparts, must meet the same quality and safety standards, and be approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Even while keeping generic drug costs in check for consumers, most physicians who have introduced the QuiqMeds system to their patients have realized incremental income, and enhanced the quality of care for their patients by using the revolutionary system. This revenue stream helps to offset rising costs of billing and dwindling reimbursements. “Convenience and patient safety are the bonuses that a QuiqMeds user has over filling the prescription at a discount department store,” says Tom Behlau, Chief - Continued –

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PRESS RELEASE 120 West Germantown Pike, Suite 200 For information contact: Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Tom Behlau, Chief Operating Officer www.quiqmeds.com 610-828-7221 For Immediate Release: October 25, 2006

Inexpensive Generic Drugs Now Available With Added Convenience – At Your Doctor’s Office

Discount stores aren’t the only places where consumers can now get low-cost

generic drugs. With the advent of the new QuiqMeds system in the Philadelphia region,

several of the area’s larger physician practices also offer competitive pricing on widely-

prescribed generic drugs, with the added convenience of having the prescription filled right

at the physician’s office, with no waiting and no extra drive time.

Generic drugs, typically far less expensive than their brand-name counterparts,

must meet the same quality and safety standards, and be approved by the Food and Drug

Administration. Even while keeping generic drug costs in check for consumers, most

physicians who have introduced the QuiqMeds system to their patients have realized

incremental income, and enhanced the quality of care for their patients by using the

revolutionary system. This revenue stream helps to offset rising costs of billing and

dwindling reimbursements.

“Convenience and patient safety are the bonuses that a QuiqMeds user has over

filling the prescription at a discount department store,” says Tom Behlau, Chief

- Continued –

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Operating Officer of the Plymouth Meeting, PA based Company. “At doctor’s offices that

have begun using our system, patients can get a 100-day supply of their generic

medication quickly, more conveniently, directly from the physician who has written the

prescription, and at a great value.”

The QuiqMeds Inventory Control Unit (ICU) in a contracting physician’s office is

stocked with a customized formulary of generic drugs that are prescribed most often in

that doctor’s office. What makes QuiqMeds unique is its computerized inventory control

equipment that includes a locked, specially modified commercial delivery unit, from which

the generic prescriptions are delivered to the patient right in the doctor’s office –within

minutes of the time the prescription is keyed by the doctor into a wall-mounted touch

screen.

QuiqMeds tracks the inventory and reports reorder information over the internet to

the central QuiqMeds office. Customized refill inventories are then delivered and restocked

in the machine by an authorized QuiqMeds’ representative.

Headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, QuiqMeds LLC is investor

owned and operated. Physicians interested in the QuiqMeds system for their practice

should contact the company at 610-828-7221 or through the company’s website,

www.quiqmeds.com.

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120 West Germantown Pike | Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462 Phone: 610-828-7221 | Fax: 610-828-5555 | www.QuiqMeds.com

PA Dept. of Health Wholesale Distributor of Prescription Drugs, License #8000001556 and #3000007766. Services and products are subject to patents pending.