Specialty Pharmacy News

News and Strategies for Managing High-Cost Specialty Products

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Continue reading timely news and strategies to help contain specialty pharmacy costs and improve patient outcomes

Specialty pharmacy-related costs — which are substantial already — are about to soar, as the drug pipeline is filled with hundreds of specialty therapies in various stages of development.

With many therapies costing tens of thousands — or even hundreds of thousands — of dollars per member per year, it’s easy to lose control of your drug spending with only a handful of beneficiaries on specialty products.

Renew your subscription today and Specialty Pharmacy News will continue to bring you insights into benefit design, reimbursement, network building, claims management, formulary decisions, and other management issues.

You’ll have a steady flow of hard-hitting stories on many topics like:

• Management strategies for newly approved drugs, including formulary placement, prior authorization, quantity limits and step therapy, and their impact on health plan costs.
• The latest analyses of size, profit margins, and management tactics for specialty markets, including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, hepatitis C and many more conditions.
• Ways that health plans are managing specialty drugs that are adjudicated under both the pharmacy benefit and the medical benefit.
• The potential impact of biosimilars and steps you can take to prepare for them.
• The role of personalized medicine and ways to improve patient outcomes and control costs through genetic testing.

Be sure to continue reading timely news and proven business strategies for containing the soaring costs of specialty drugs … without compromising patient care. Your one-year subscription renewal includes:

• 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),
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• Access to a subscriber-only Web page with:
• Three years of searchable archives of past 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.