Cardinal Health, Inc. LAST VERIFIED: August 6, 2026

Cardinal Health, Inc. is one of the largest healthcare distributors in the world, headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, and founded in 1971. A NYSE-listed public company, it reports roughly 58,000 employees across 30 countries, $222.6 billion in total fiscal 2025 revenue, and service to 90% of US hospitals. Its business spans pharmaceuticals and specialty pharmaceuticals, medical and laboratory products, home-health and direct-to-patient products, and nuclear pharmacy, organized into segments including Pharmaceutical & Specialty Solutions, OptiFreight Logistics, at-Home Solutions, Nuclear & Precision Health, and Global Medical Products & Distribution. Its scale places it among a handful of dominant US healthcare distributors.

Cardinal Health is a contracted B2B distributor, not an open storefront. Ordering requires a B2B customer sign-in, and the record lists no published MOQ, minimum order value, or payment methods — commercial terms are negotiated at the account level, as is standard for pharmaceutical distribution. The company is not dropship-friendly. Logistics run through its own distribution network, which it says handles more than 70,000 pharmaceutical and specialty deliveries per day. Prospective customers — hospitals, pharmacies, and healthcare providers — should expect a formal onboarding process with licensing verification rather than simple e-commerce checkout, and should contact sales to establish terms.

For its intended customers, Cardinal Health is about as established as suppliers get: Fortune-scale finances, public-company transparency, a five-decade history, and dominant hospital reach. The record lists no red flags. The caveats are about fit and access rather than credibility: this is enterprise pharmaceutical and medical distribution for licensed healthcare buyers, with account requirements and negotiated terms — small resellers, general merchants, and dropshippers are not its market and will not get accounts. Published buyer-facing terms are minimal by design, so any real evaluation happens through the contracting process. Healthcare organizations should compare it against other major distributors on service and pricing.