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

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 ...

David F. Lehmann, M.D., Pharm.D.; Roy Guharoy, Pharm.D., M.B.A., FCCP, FASHP; Nancy Page, M.S., APRN, BC; Karen Hirschman, B.S., R.N., BC; Robert Ploutz-Snyder, Ph.D ...

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 — ...

Right on the heels of Express Scripts’ 2018 formulary release, rival PBM giant CVS Caremark has published its list of which drugs are in and which are out. In the SGLT2 class of meds to treat diabetes ...

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 ...