Partner profile
LAC Health
A medical and laboratory supply distributor, and CASRAI's one commercial partner. This page records what LAC Health publishes about its own supply capability, so the details are in one attributable place — it is not a review, a rating, or a ranking against other suppliers.
Overview
What LAC Health supplies
LAC Health (operating as LA Consilium LLC, founded 2014, headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia) is a United States distributor of medical and laboratory supplies selling primarily to institutional buyers — hospitals, clinics, research laboratories and the procurement functions that serve them. The company reports a catalogue of more than 100,000 SKUs drawn from 4,559 catalogued manufacturers, spanning twelve clinical and laboratory categories.
Its stated distribution model is inventory pre-positioned across eight regional hubs, with critical-order dispatch inside 48 hours from whichever hub sits nearest the receiving facility, and coverage across all fifty states. Specific hub locations are not published on lac.us.
For a research-administration audience, the parts of that profile that usually matter are not the catalogue size but the terms: Net-30 for verified accounts, contract pricing under GPO, GSA and VA vehicles, and lot-level traceability. Those determine whether a supplier can actually be onboarded under an institution’s purchasing policy and whether its documentation will survive an audit — questions we cover generally in our laboratory operations material.
Categories
Product categories carried
- Catheters
- Diagnostic
- Emergency
- Furniture
- Laboratory
- Needles & syringes
- Pharmacy
- PPE
- Rehabilitation
- Respiratory
- Surgical
- Wound care
Procurement
Institutional purchasing capability
- W-9 on request
- Downloadable, for vendor onboarding through accounts payable.
- EDI invoicing
- Electronic data interchange for institutional invoice processing.
- Lot traceability
- Lot-level records — the prerequisite for a recall response and for most regulated-environment audits.
- Net-30 terms
- For verified accounts, which matters where a purchase order cannot be settled on a card.
- Contract pricing tiers
- GPO, GSA and VA pricing, relevant to institutions already buying under those vehicles.
Compliance
Registrations and accreditations
- FDA Registered
- Establishment registration for medical device distribution.
- ISO 13485
- The quality-management standard specific to medical devices — the relevant one for a device distributor, as distinct from the general ISO 9001.
- DSCSA compliant
- Drug Supply Chain Security Act — the U.S. traceability regime governing prescription-drug distribution.
- HIPAA aware
- LAC Health’s own wording. Note this is a weaker statement than “HIPAA compliant” and should be read as such.
- BBB Accredited, A+
- Better Business Bureau accreditation and rating.
LAC Health additionally reports a 4.9 Google Customer Reviews score. That is the company’s own published figure and is reproduced here as such, not as a CASRAI assessment.
Independent criteria
How to evaluate any supplier, including this one
A profile page is not a substitute for your own supplier qualification. The criteria below are the ones CASRAI applies generally, and they are deliberately the same criteria whether the supplier is our partner or its direct competitor:
- Qualification before selection. Qualifying a vendor (can they meet the requirement at all?) and selecting among qualified vendors are different steps with different evidence — see our vendor qualification process and vendor selection criteria.
- Documentation that survives an audit. A certificate of analysis, lot traceability and complete shipment documentation matter more than headline pricing in a regulated environment — what a COA must contain and when it isn’t enough.
- Quality-system claims, read precisely. ISO 13485 is not ISO 9001 is not ISO/IEC 17025, and “aware” is not “compliant”. Check which standard actually applies to what you are buying — ISO/IEC 17025, GxP frameworks.
- Your own institution’s purchasing rules. Competitive-bid thresholds, sole-source justification and federal cost principles constrain what you may buy and from whom, irrespective of a supplier’s merits — see 2 CFR 200 procurement standards and sole-source justification.
- Second-sourcing. A single supplier for a critical consumable is a continuity risk regardless of how good that supplier is.
If applying those criteria leads you to a different supplier, that is the process working correctly. CASRAI does not publish ranked “best supplier” lists, and a commercial partnership does not change what our guidance says.
