Melody Chang, R.Ph., says payers cover bispecific and CAR-T drugs but not the monitoring that lets community practices deliver them safely at lower cost.
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Tools Payers Are Using to Control Drug Costs, per Ellen Feeney of Highmark | 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference
At the 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference in Orlando, Ellen Feeney, director of Clinical Pharmacy Strategies at Highmark shares the tools payers are using to control medication costs outside the traditional ones like utilization management. Feeney also talked about the new program that Highmark kickstarted in 2022 to help manage medication costs.
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