Pharmacy

February 18, 2021

Having specialty pharmacies fill prescriptions may lower costs, but critics of the practice see safety issues and other drawbacks.

February 01, 2021

Opinion piece by MHE's Editorial Advisory Board Member and CEO of The Pharmacy Group, Perry Cohen. Perry discusses the response differences and vague similarities between the countries and addresses the continuous question, "What is the new normal?"

December 23, 2020

In this week's episode, MHE's Senior Editor Peter Wehrwein spoke with Sumit Dutta, Optum Rx chief medical officer. The two spoke about COVID-19 vaccines and how the pharmacy benefit market responded to the pandemic.

December 12, 2020

The five states have moved to prohibit accumulators and maximizers as the federal government takes a hands-off approach, according to John “Jack” S. Linehan, a lawyer at Epstein Becker Green, who is featured in this second part of a two-part video series.

December 09, 2020

John “Jack” S. Linehan, a lawyer at Epstein Becker Green, is featured in the first part of a two-part video series on copay accumulators and maximizers.

November 23, 2020

Health plans build strategies to ensure their beneficiaries have easy access to and receive vital immunizations.

October 15, 2020

Featured speaker at the 4th Annual PBMI Specialty Rx Forum on October 16 discusses theme of the meeting.

October 07, 2020

In this week’s episode of Tuning Into the C-Suite, MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with Denise Basow, president and CEO of Clinical Effectiveness at Wolters Kluwer. Briana and Basow discussed the importance of uniting prescribers and pharmacists at the point of care and how this form of care can create more efficient and effective operations within health systems.

September 29, 2020

Can data mined from EHRs match that from the gold standard, randomized clinical trials?

September 02, 2020

The 2020 meeting, presented in a virtual format from its original host city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, had lots of important science and a record number of viewers.

July 31, 2020

As it has done with so much else in healthcare, COVID-19 dominated our 2020 annual pharmacy survey. The disease was addressed in 10 of our 13 areas we covered, either within the question itself or as a possible answer. Third of three parts. See more in our Surveys tab.

July 30, 2020

As it has done with so much else in healthcare, COVID-19 dominated our 2020 annual pharmacy survey. The disease was addressed in 10 of our 13 areas we covered, either within the question itself or as a possible answer. Second of three parts. See more in our Surveys tab.

July 28, 2020

As it has done with so much else in healthcare, COVID-19 dominated our 2020 annual pharmacy survey. The disease was addressed in 10 of our 13 areas we covered, either within the question itself or as a possible answer. First of three parts. See more in our Surveys tab.

July 27, 2020

Senior Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer for Optum Rx and member of the Managed Healthcare Executive® Editorial Advisory Board, David Calabrese, provides his commentary on the future of pharmacy care services after the coronavirus pandemic.

July 22, 2020

MHE's Briana Contreras spoke with CEO of Scripta, Eric Levin. The two discussed the current state of the pharmacy benefit market and how the Scripta organization has been assisting its clients and their prescriptions prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and during.

July 20, 2020

SingleCare analyzed consumer prescription demand and fill data in the weeks leading up to shelter in place orders, beginning in March, and the subsequent months after the pandemic to see how COVID has impacted the healthcare trends of Americans.

July 13, 2020

From staffing to readmissions to diagnostics, data intelligence is poised to revolutionize healthcare.

July 01, 2020

In this week's episode of Tuning Into The C-Suite podcast, MHE's Briana Contreras chatted with David Calabrese, R.Ph, MHP, who is senior vice president and chief pharmacy officer of pharmacy care services company, OptumRx. David is also a member of Managed Healthcare Executives’ Editorial Advisory Board. During the discussion, he shared the OptumRx Quarter 2 Drug Pipeline Insights Report of 2020. Some of the information shared includes the three notable drugs currently being reviewed or those that have been recently approved by the FDA. Also discussed were any interesting industry trends to watch for.

June 22, 2020

The two PCSK9 inhibitors have fallen far short of expectations. Inclisiran, which works by RNA inference, only needs to be injected twice a year. 

June 22, 2020

Pharmacy benefit managers are taking steps to be more responsible for the total cost of care and to become more transparent, while adding technology tools to support patients, payers and physicians in a post-COVID-19 world.