Walmart and Home Depot, two of the top 10 U.S. employers, are using copay accumulator programs
Specialty Pharmacy Market Overview – Market Shakeout Continuing into 2018 As the specialty drug spend grows, specialty pharmacies are playing an increasingly larger role in access and delivery of medications and services. The specialty pharmacy market, while dominated by a few large companies, has an increasing number of participants. AMI’s annual report, Specialty Pharmacy Market […]
Specialty Drug Wave Hitting Medical and Pharmacy Plans Harder: Trends versus reliable benefit strategy to handle the impact through 2020?The U.S. now has two different markets resulting from implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and resultant trends. Related to specialty or biological drugs, public sector CMS’s forecast of drug spending is somewhat counterintuitive, given […]
Express Scripts Plans a Specialty Drug Price War over new hepatitis C treatments reports a recent Bloomberg News story. The news follows the release of Gilead’s Sovaldi (sofosbuvir), which reportedly costs $1,000 per pill. Express Scripts projects that Hepatitis C drug trend will grow by 168% by 2015, so employers and health plan payers are […]