Tag Archives: TRICARE

Health Insurance, Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Centene Selects Express Scripts to Provide PBM Benefits in 2024

Posted on by John Santilli

Centene recently announced that it reached its pharmacy platform migration milestones and is engaged in strategic discussions with potential PBM partners about how to drive additional quality and value in delivering pharmacy benefits to its members.

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Market Report, Uncategorized

Department of Defense Drug Cost-Savings Programs

Posted on by John Santilli
Military Healthcare
03
Jan

Department of Defense Drug Cost-Savings Programs. The Department of Defense pharmacy program is on to track to slice $1.3 billion off projected drug costs from 2014 to 2019, thanks to higher beneficiary co-pays, tighter point-of-service rules and recent streamlining of prescription drug processes across the military, explained Dr. George E. Jones, chief of pharmacy operations […]

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Specialty Drug

VA Extending Hepatitis C Therapy

Posted on by John Santilli

VA Extending Hepatitis C Therapy as its drug spend for the disease increases rapidly. The department last year allocated $696 million for new hepatitis C drugs, accounting for 17 percent of the VA’s total pharmacy budget. In fiscal 2016, which began Oct. 1, 2015, the VA expects to spend about $1 billion on hepatitis C […]

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