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.
Michael Thompson on Employer-PBM Relations and What It Will Take to Change Them
September 12th 2023Thompson, the president of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, said if that 20% of the market changes way it deals with PBMs “it will change the market, it will change the conversation, it will change the practices of key players.”
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Patient, Provider Support is Key for Biosimilar Adoption| 2023 PBM I Annual National Conference
September 8th 2023There is a huge opportunity for savings from the recently launched Humira biosimilars and others expected to reach the market in the next few years. But plans and PBMs will need to step into the role that pharmaceutical manufacturers once did in supporting patients and prescribers.
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Ozempic (semaglutide) is second only to Humira (adalimumab) in sales, according to the IQVIA vice president of industry relations and a frequent speaker at conference. And for newly launched drugs, sales figures for Mounjaro (tirzepatide) are second only to what they were for Harvoni (ledipasvir and sofosbuvir), a hepatitis C antiviral, when the hepatitis C antivirals were new.
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