Successful formulary system management can help ACOs achieve high quality, low cost objectives across the care continuum. This article targets healthcare leaders choosing to participate in the ...

Sophia Humphreys, PharmD, MHA, BCBBS, discussed how biosimilars can play a role in formulary management as well as the main takeaways of her presentations at the Newport Beach Institute for ...

The formulary management process was applied to help prevent ACPS. Specifically, amitriptyline prescribing was restricted to the psychiatry service, and a therapeutic interchange policy was developed ...

A formulary submission tool has been updated to enable payers to get access to drugs' product information before they are approved in order to make decisions faster. The Food and Drug Administration ...

John McManus, 65, of Rockville, Maryland, speaks with a Senior Prescription Drug Assistance Program outreach consultant, left, about the Medicare Part D drug subsidy program. Photographer: Stephen ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services and the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER) recently announced a collaboration in which the VA will use the ...

Louis S. Christos, RPh: The basic review process for any therapeutic area in diabetes is always going to be efficacy, then safety, then cost. Within efficacy, obviously, we’ll look at an A1C reduction ...

The outcome of a formulary interchange from filgrastim to sargramostim for the amelioration of neutropenia for outpatients receiving myelosuppressive chemotherapy was evaluated. The pharmacy ...

As payers increasingly look to put a lid on drug costs—partly through formulary management—the decision by two leading pharmacy benefit managers to exclude Sanofi's big-sellers in diabetes took a ...

The Defense Health Agency (DHA), which manages the TRICARE health care benefits, has issued a Request for Information (RFI) regarding inpatient-clinic administered pharmaceuticals formulary management ...