Pharmacy benefit management

RA medicine accounted for nearly half of specialty drug spend last year, inducing the pharmacy benefit manager to introduce a personalized savings program that could save employers $500,000 a year.

This deal has strategic and financial benefits for Albertsons and helps the grocer avoid a choppy IPO market, but also gets it deeper into the increasingly tough and competitive pharmacy business.

Strategic Benefit Advisors prescribes strategies to manage the single largest driver of rising healthcare cost trend.

Strategic Benefit Advisors prescribes strategies to manage the single largest driver of rising healthcare cost trend.

Pharmacies in Canada, Australia, the U.K. and more can supply Rx medicine for less than half of U.S. prices.

Pharmacies in Canada, Australia, the U.K. and more can supply Rx medicine for less than half of U.S. prices.

Everybody is playing diversification catch-up to UnitedHealth, which has spent billions on everything from a PBM to ambulatory surgery clinics.

Jeff Bezos has eyed the pharmacy business for years without plunging in. The upside may be too big to ignore.

The new year will see a continuation of the trends from 2017 that have affected employers — but with a sharp focus on insurance company acquisitions and opioid regulations.

Marrying price transparency with strong clinical programs can ensure proper administration of medication based on an individual’s needs.