Pharmacy benefit management

Many pharmacy benefit managers promote discounts and drug rebates that may look good on paper, but often provide no transparency of true costs. This can result in employers paying much more than they should.

By tying its clinical database to physicians’ EHR systems, the drug chain hopes to avoid patient sticker shock and prescription abandonment at the point of sale.

The changing dynamics of carrier competition, the effect of insurance M&A on the market and influence on prescription drug availability are all ways employer-based healthcare may be impacted.

By tying its clinical database to physicians’ EHR systems, the drug chain hopes to avoid patient sticker shock and prescription abandonment at the point of sale.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Addiction recovery costs are skyrocketing for companies, but employee education on drug usage can help stem the tide.

Three hundred large hospital systems are teaming up to control rising drug costs. But even their firepower might not be enough.

Aetna will pass on the discounts it negotiates on prescription drugs to about 3 million of its members, in the latest move to address complaints about the cost of medicine.

Soaring drug prices are hammering smaller employers. Here are three ways benefit brokers can help.

The drug supply chain is being drawn even more taut, and the power of the big players even greater.

White House, states calling for greater price transparency and accountability.

Many firms aren’t satisfied with their prescription drug costs — but there are ways to change that problem, says consultant Chuck Reynolds.

Insurers, drugstores, distributors and pharmacy benefit managers looking for partners.

The health-care industry's game of musical chairs just got more intense and more expensive.

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.

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.