Pressure is at an all-time high for providers to find a way to deliver the highest quality care at the lowest possible price: Enter the shift toward integrated delivery networks (IDNs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). In an attempt to […]
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The 14th edition EMD Serono’s Specialty Digest continues its insights into the worries of pharmacy directors at managed care organizations and health plans. This year, the Digest took a particular look at multiple sclerosis (one of EMD Serono’s product areas) […]
Read MoreOn the eve of the annual Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit, its must-attend event for specialty pharma and specialty pharmacy, the company has announced an expansion of its hub services, now being carried out in four locations with staffing upwards of […]
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“Behavioral targeting” is the marketer’s term for techniques to increase the effectiveness of online publishing and advertising with deep user data. Facebook has dominated the news recently because of behavioral targeting driven by its data management policies. Yet for many […]
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The seemingly never-ending trench warfare between pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and the pharma industry is escalating with the rise of “copay accumulator” programs from the PBMs. That’s according to a webinar at MMM Online conducted by Rick Fry, associate VP […]
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IQVIA’s annual Use of Medicines report, which details spending and prescribing trends for the US, says that the nominal $452.6 billion in revenue actually worked out to $324.4 billion in net revenue in 2017, after factoring discounts and rebates to […]
Read MoreFrom a pharmacoeconomic perspective, vaccines are arguably one of the most cost-effective interventions available, to reduce healthcare and hospitalization costs, as well as mortality/morbidity and worker productivity issues. One study indicates that among US children born during 1994– 2013, vaccination […]
Read MoreLooks like it took about a year, from when McKesson closed on its acquisition of CoverMyMeds last April to now, for McKesson Specialty Health to fully integrate CoverMyMeds service for managing electronic prior authorizations (ePAs). Now, under a service called […]
Read MoreHUB SERVICE PROVIDERS Accredo Health Group 1640 Century Center Pkwy Memphis TN 38134 888 608 9010 / www.accredo.com Asembia 200 Park Ave., Suite 300 Florham Park NJ 07932 973 564 8004 / www.asembia.com Ashfield Patient Services 003 South Miami Blvd […]
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Everyone agrees: drug pricing is on an unsustainable upward path, and some look to variations on the concept of “value based” or “outcomes based” pricing as a potential solution. These concepts are not new—there has been substantial experience in single-payer […]
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