Welcome to Pediatric Federation

Pediatric Federation LLC is an extensive community of physicians and pediatric professionals. Our goal, through cooperative effort is to increase office efficiency and facilitate issues that arise with the strain of managed care. Basically we try to do everything to make running a pediatric practice simple, easy and cost effective. With that in mind Pediatric Federation LLC offers a variety of services and features ranging from our incredibly successful Vaccine Purchasing Program [VPP] to up to the minute syndicated pediatric medical news. Pediatric Federation LLC is not a money making venture; it's sole purpose is to provide methods, services and ideas to make the operation of pediatric practices better. Better for the doctors, administrators, personnel and ultimately the patients we serve.

Membership is 100% FREE. We offer substantial and consistent savings and helpful features to assist your practice at no cost. For more information click the links below:

VACCINE CONTRACT VOTING COMPLETED

We have completed the important process of selecting our contracts which begin January 1, 2008.  Thank you to all the offices returning ballots - almost 700 physicians responded!  Our current vaccine lines have been retained by the membership.  To see details regarding the results, partcipating offices who have registered their practices on this website can click this link.  If you have not yet registered your practice- please do!  You will be able to access important information for participating offices only.  Thank you!

VACCINE CONTRACT VOTING BEGINS FOR PARTICIPATING PHYSICIAN OFFICES

Ballots and all supporting information for the 2008 vaccine contracts have been mailed to those offices participating in our group vaccine purchase program.  They have a bright, florescent sticker stating "Ballot Enclosed"- they are not junk mail!  If you participate in our vaccine buying group and have already received a password for this website, please click here for more details- we have a great vaccine pricing evaluation spreadsheet available for you to download.  If you belong to our group and have not yet registered your practice on this website, please click here to register your practice and receive your password so you will be able to access the private, password protected pages.  Please watch for the envelope and return your ballot promptly.  Thank you!

Merck Changes Minimum Order Shipping Policy

A notice from Merck was sent to all its customers about changes to the minimum purchase order to quality for FREE shipping .  Just in case you have missed it you can read it here.

 


Dear Customer
 
This letter is to inform you of a change to Merck's vaccine minimum order policy in the Merck
Terms and Conditions of Sale, Vaccine Products
  
Effective January 1, 2007, orders of $600 or more will be shipped free of charge for standard
shipping. The Order Minimum section of our Terms and Conditions of Sale, Vaccine Products will
read as follows:
 
• Vaccine-only orders of less than six-hundred dollars ($600.00) per shipping location will be
subject to a service charge of $20.  The minimum order amount includes the net effective price of
the vaccines only and does not include additional charges in the order (e.g., shipping charges,
taxes) 
• Orders containing only allocated products are excluded from this minimum.
• Backordered products will count towards the minimum-order amount.
 
You may view the complete Terms and Conditions of Sale, Vaccine Products by visiting
www.merckvaccines.com  or www.Merck.com/e-business.
 
As always, your comments and suggestions on how we can serve you better are appreciated. Please
send any comments to Economic Affairs, Merck Human Health Division, North Wales, Pa. 19454. If
you have any questions regarding the changes outlined above or any other issues, please contact the
Merck Order Management Center at 1-800-MERCK-RX (1-800-637-2579).


Pediatric Federation's New Website

logoAs with most of our ventures, the pediafed.com website is starting from humble beginnings.  Group cooperation and ideas have spawned an organization far ahead of it's time.  Hopefully with some hard work and community collaboration this site will become a valuable and practical resource for pediatric professionals everywhere.  This website is 100% free for anybody who is interested.  Registration is easy, which is still possible and encouraged, even if you are not