Commercial and Regulatory Contracts, Discounts and Finance
Flexible, Fast, Accurate and Transparent
IRA Inflation Rebates will be sent in September 2025
- Configurable Inflation Rebate GP Policies
- Ready to process utilization
- Integrated Gross-to-Net impact
Inaccurate Customer Master leading to revenue leakage
- Single customer record sourced from Rosters, DEA, HIBCC, HRSA, PBM Plans
- Seamless Integration to ERP
- Record level and field-level edit control
Government Pricing monthly cycle workflow
- Automated GL Reconciliation
- Integrated Estimation, Reallocation and Calculations
- Price Committee, SOX and Filing Reporting
Claims Processing is siloed leading to revenue leakage
- Single Claims processing engine
- Cross domain validations
- Cross training
- Business and Technical optimizations
Medicaid, Managed Care, Chargebacks, Incentives, Distributor Fees, Inflation rebates, and more.
Claims processed at summarized level
- Speed to process at Rx level
- One-to-one reconciliation reports
Gross-to-Net disconnect from Revenue Management
- Integrated Contract Lifecycle Management
- Automated Accruals and Payments
- Visibility into Revenue Management from G2N
Use Cases
Reserve Management (GTN)
Kernel GTN is designed to simplify and de-risk the reserve management processes.
- Forecast
- Generate Accruals
- Ingest Payments
- Release Reserves
- Reconcile wiht GL
- Close Periods
- Track reserves at different levels through customer-defined hierarchies and visualize data through
- Prepare Certification Meeting package
- KERNEL GTN allows businesses to focus on quality analysis and proactivity.
Government Pricing
Kernel addresses all aspects of Government Pricing from Policy to Certification Meeting. Users are able to:
- Edit Policies
- Estimate BP
- Reallocate
- What-ifs
- Calculate AMPs, NFAMPs, ASP, BP, FCP, TRICARE, URAs
- Prepare Certification Meeting package
- Our calculation engine is already prepared to handle Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) prices
Claims Processing
Kernel supports all Claims with a single engine capable of validating, calculating and paying:
- Chargebacks
- Incentives
- Distributor Fees
- Medicaid
- Managed Care
Contract Management
Kernel provides an elegant solution for managing critical contract data through an easy-to-use interface and automated submission methods. Users can effectively oversee:
- Contracts
- Programs
- Program Prices
- Program Filters
- Properties
- Full support for GPO, PHS, FSS, Incentives, Distributor, Medicaid, and Managed Care Contracts
Product Management
Kernel offers a comprehensive solution for handling essential product data elements via our user interface and automated submission processes. Users have the ability to manage:
- Labelers
- NDC9s
- NDC11s
- Brands
- Market Baskets
- Prices
- Properties
- Maps
Customer Management
Kernel provides a robust platform for managing critical customer data elements through both our UI and automated submissions. Users can maintain:
- Customers
- Identifiers
- Class of Trade
- Addresses
- Memberships
- Books of Business
- Formularies
- Properties
Modules
Master Data
OpenPharma MD provides full visibility into Customers, Membership, Products, Price, and Contracts, as required by SC, GP, and GTN.
Sales & Concessions
Open Pharma SC is an elegant solution capable of handling Direct Sales, Medicaid, Managed Care, Chargeback, Distributor Fees, Incentives, Inflation Rebate, and more.
Government Pricing
Open Pharma GP provides all capabilities required to calculate AMPs, BPs, PHS, NFAMPs, FCPs, Tricare, URAs (Medicaid/Medicare). GL Reconciliation, Estimation, Reallocation and Calculation, Certification Meeting and Fling Exports are all built-in.
Gross-to-net
Open Pharma GTN automates the generation of accruals, ingestion of payments, release of reserves, reconciliation with GL and close of months/quarters.
What Sets Us Apart
Choosing KERNEL means you are partnering with a leader in the industry. Our advantages include deep expertise in Life Sciences data management, innovative solutions that evolve with your needs, proven success with top pharmaceutical companies, and a dedicated, experienced team focused on your success.
Benefits
The Open Pharma SaaS Platform is a modern and user-friendly platform that offers unprecedented speed, flexibility, and accuracy, as well as easy access to data and seamless integration capabilities.
Kernel delivers Open Pharma fully migrated system at kick-off, so that our installation projects are focused on change management, data harmonization and business process redesign.
Open Pharma joins our customer’s ecosystem with no changes to boundary system. Kernel personnel help re-route inbound and outbound interfaces from legacy solutions to Open Pharma. If needed, Submitter and Exporter Plugins are configured to comply with existing X12, XML, CSV formats.
Open Pharma SaaS Platform enables Revenue and Artificial Intelligence vendors to deliver value directly via the Open Pharma Marketplace with a seamless and consistent user experience.
Kernel leverages the Open Pharma Marketplace to deliver end-to-end duplicate discount recovery functionality which is expected to translate into significant savings for .
Similarly, Market Access teams can leverage Open Pharma Marketplace vendors to validate the potential outcomes of deals as claimed in opportunities. By combining revenue management data with syndicated and other data sets, the platform delivers comprehensive metrics, including Market Share, Lives, and Status, alongside Revenue, Rebates, and Chargebacks data for PBM and GPO contracts. This integration ensures a holistic view of deal performance, enabling informed decision-making and strategic optimization.
One example of Kernel’s Integration is with fundae’s Revenue Intelligence Platform for Duplicate Discount, Dochas for Pre and Post Deal Analytics simulation of various deal scenarios and Ikigai’s Artificial Intelligence Platform.
Open Pharma SaaS Platform supports massive parallel processing on commodity hardware on AWS. Open Pharma supports multi-tenant, multi-node environments (different Entities in a dedicated node) and on-demand startup of AWS instances for additional capacity.
Open Pharma features a modularized front-end that is modern and user-friendly. It incorporates a powerful event mechanism and workflow system that provides alerts to help users understand their next steps. A Dashboard, based on flexible widgets, which enable users to track their metrics effectively. Additionally, Kernel offers a “dark-mode” and flexible colors scheme options, catering to those who spend extended periods looking at screens.
Kernel’s Open Pharma Platform offers high-performance, streamlined processing of Medicaid Script Level State Utilization files and Utilization-Based Rebates at the script level. This is an out-of-box (OOB) functionality and does not require data connectors, handoffs, or additional modules.
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Open Pharma SaaS Platform enables Revenue and Artificial Intelligence vendors to deliver value directly via the Open Pharma Marketplace with a seamless and consistent user experience.
Kernel leverages the Open Pharma Marketplace to deliver end-to-end duplicate discount recovery functionality which is expected to translate into significant savings for .
Similarly, Market Access teams can leverage Open Pharma Marketplace vendors to validate the potential outcomes of deals as claimed in opportunities. By combining revenue management data with syndicated and other data sets, the platform delivers comprehensive metrics, including Market Share, Lives, and Status, alongside Revenue, Rebates, and Chargebacks data for PBM and GPO contracts. This integration ensures a holistic view of deal performance, enabling informed decision-making and strategic optimization.
One example of Kernel’s Integration is with fundae’s Revenue Intelligence Platform for Duplicate Discount, Dochas for Pre and Post Deal Analytics simulation of various deal scenarios and Ikigai’s Artificial Intelligence Platform.
Kernel delivers Open Pharma fully migrate system at kick-off, so that our installation projects are focused on change management, data harmonization and business process redesign.
Open Pharma makes 100% of its data available through a high-performance canonical Analytics Database). This database is user-friendly using concepts easily understood by the Business and IT. Kernel Analytics is ideal for tools such as Tableau for Business Intelligence (BI) or Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) to specialized AI and Revenue Intelligence systems. In addition, Open Pharma has multiple Exports for each Entity making it easy to generate CSVs, Excel, PDFs, and other. Moreover, Open Pharma has many UI features that enable easy visualization through Dashboards, Widgets, Perspectives and Excel-like tables.
Open Pharma joins our customer’s ecosystem with no changes to boundary system. Kernel personnel help re-route inbound and outbound interfaces from legacy solutions to Open Pharma. If needed, Submitter and Exporter Plugins are configured to comply with existing X12, XML, CSV formats.
Open Pharma SaaS Platform supports massive parallel processing on commodity hardware on AWS. Open Pharma supports multi-tenant, multi-node environments (different Entities in a dedicated node) and on-demand startup of AWS instances for additional capacity.
Open Pharma features a modularized front-end that is modern and user-friendly. It incorporates a powerful event mechanism and workflow system that provides alerts to help users understand their next steps. A Dashboard, based on flexible widgets, which enable users to track their metrics effectively. Additionally, Kernel offers a “dark-mode” and flexible colors scheme options, catering to those who spend extended periods looking at screens.
Kernel’s Open Pharma Platform offers high-performance, streamlined processing of Medicaid Script Level State Utilization files and Utilization-Based Rebates at the script level. This is an out-of-box (OOB) functionality and does not require data connectors, handoffs, or additional modules.
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Making a Positive Impact
At KERNEL, we are committed to ethical practices and sustainability.
We strive to create solutions that benefit our clients and the broader community. Our goal is to improve patient access to critical therapies while maintaining high standards of corporate responsibility.
We focus on sustainable business practices, contributing to society’s well-being, and ensuring that our operations have a positive impact on the world around us. By prioritizing these values, we aim to make a lasting difference in the life sciences industry.
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