This issue brief describes the evolution of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry since the late 1960s and outlines current business practices in the areas of payment, services, drug formularies, and rebates. Tools of the trade, such as cost-sharing and generic substitution, used to control costs and improve quality are also discussed
28 pagesPharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have, until very recently, largely escaped public scrutiny ...
Over the past decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services ...
Michael J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy (Pharmacy...
This issue brief uses large-employer experiences with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to shed light...
This issue brief examines changes to prescription drug benefit coverage in large-employer plans and ...
This issue brief provides an overview of Medicare prescription drug plans (PDPs), with a focus on fu...
The market-based US health care system relies on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to control pharmac...
This issue brief provides a profile of the pharmaceutical industry and explores topics such as compe...
Pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies are the middlemen of the pharmaceutical industry, design...
Over the last two decades, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), organizations that act as middlemen bet...
Pharmaceutical pricing is an important issue for those that pay for health care services (employers,...
AbstractLipid-lowering therapy can account for 7% of per patient per month drug costs. Because this ...
This dissertation focuses on drug distribution through Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the pharm...
By early 2001, more than one-half of the states had established some type of pharmaceutical assistan...
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) save Americans billions of dollars each year by lowering both the p...
28 pagesPharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have, until very recently, largely escaped public scrutiny ...
Over the past decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services ...
Michael J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy (Pharmacy...
This issue brief uses large-employer experiences with pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to shed light...
This issue brief examines changes to prescription drug benefit coverage in large-employer plans and ...
This issue brief provides an overview of Medicare prescription drug plans (PDPs), with a focus on fu...
The market-based US health care system relies on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) to control pharmac...
This issue brief provides a profile of the pharmaceutical industry and explores topics such as compe...
Pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies are the middlemen of the pharmaceutical industry, design...
Over the last two decades, Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), organizations that act as middlemen bet...
Pharmaceutical pricing is an important issue for those that pay for health care services (employers,...
AbstractLipid-lowering therapy can account for 7% of per patient per month drug costs. Because this ...
This dissertation focuses on drug distribution through Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the pharm...
By early 2001, more than one-half of the states had established some type of pharmaceutical assistan...
Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) save Americans billions of dollars each year by lowering both the p...
28 pagesPharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) have, until very recently, largely escaped public scrutiny ...
Over the past decade, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Pharmacy Benefits Management Services ...
Michael J. Miller is Assistant Professor of Social and Administrative Sciences in Pharmacy (Pharmacy...