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Specialty Pharmacy News

News and Strategies for Managing High-Cost Specialty Products

Specialty Pharmacy News is a monthly newsletter that provides intelligence and strategies to help control costs and improve patient outcomes – with insights into benefit design tactics, specialty markets for certain conditions, formulary decisions, merger and acquisition activity, payer-provider partnerships, patient adherence strategies, and new products.

Specialty Pharmacy News is designed to help health plans, PBMs, providers and employers manage costs more aggressively and deliver specialty drugs more effectively. It covers topics like:

• The latest analyses of therapies, opportunities and management tactics for a range of specialty markets, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, various cancers, hepatitis C, growth hormone deficiency, HIV/AIDS and Crohn’s disease.
• Ways that health plans are managing specialty drugs across both the pharmacy and medical benefits — and making sure those approaches are aligned in terms of medication coverage.
• Details on how different health plans are implementing oncology management strategies such as clinical pathways.
• The role of personalized medicine — including targeted therapies such as Herceptin, Erbitux, and Gleevec — and ways to improve patient outcomes and control costs through genetic testing.
• The potential impact of biosimilars and steps payers can take to prepare for their entry into the U.S. marketplace.
• Case studies of payer-provider partnerships in the specialty arena that increase efficiencies in cost and outcomes.

As a subscriber to Specialty Pharmacy News, you receive:

• 12 monthly issues packed with news and strategies on this increasingly vital sector in health business, delivered First Class by U.S. Mail and electronically (optional),
• E-News Alerts whenever important news breaks, and
• Access to a subscriber-only Web page with:
• Searchable archives of past articles,
• Convenient library with PDFs of back issues,
• Access to exclusive data from AIS’s quarterly surveys with major PBMs and health plans across the country,
• Recent stories of interest and hot topic articles grouped for convenient reading, and
• Regular postings from Managing Editor Angela Maas.

Get the help you need to meet the complicated challenges of reducing costs while improving outcomes with Specialty Pharmacy News, the most practical source of news and strategies available anywhere in this field. Order your 100% No-Risk Subscription today!