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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. Through the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) ...

Sophia Humphreys, PharmD, MHA, BCBBS, spoke about how she views formulary management as a team approach. Sophia Humphreys, PharmD, MHA, BCBBS, director of system pharmacy formulary management and ...

Health systems’ pharmaceutical spending is expected to rise by up to 6 percent in 2019, according to a study published in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy. For these organizations — ...

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 American Journal of Pharmacy Benefits (AJPB) has officially launched http://www.ajpb.com to provide content from the AJPB print journal, as well as daily news and ...

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 Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) performance improvement methodology was used to implement this formulary conversion project. The key elements of the JCAHO ...

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 ...

We undertook a therapeutic interchange program, substituting sargramostim for filgrastim for patients undergoing treatment with myelosuppressive chemotherapy. A thorough review of the clinical data ...