News|Articles|September 4, 2026

A conversation with Tiffany Phung, Pharm.D., CSP, about how patient outcomes drive specialty pharmacy strategy

Author(s)Logan Lutton

In this discussion, Tiffany Phung, Pharm.D., CSP, director of specialty pharmacy value, trade relations and market access at UC Davis Health, explores the challenges facing health system specialty pharmacies and how data-driven collaboration is shaping the future of patient care.

As specialty pharmacy becomes one of the fastest-growing areas of medicine, health systems are under pressure to show they can do more than dispense high-cost therapies — they need to prove they can manage the full patient journey. Limited distribution arrangements often shut health system pharmacies out of filling the very prescriptions their own teams identified, investigated and coordinated, even as rare disease treatments continue to expand.