
Stanford Health Care’s Janjri Desai, Pharm.D., says pharmacists improve outcomes but often can’t bill for it, making billing parity key to growing services.
JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, a three-tier formulary was a novelty; now more and more health plans and employers have introduced the design into their pharmacy benefits. The growth in the number of workers covered under a three-tier design has grown from 27% to 63% between 2000 and 2003.