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There has never been such radical change in the pharmaceutical business, with creative new benefit designs, the explosion in injectables, Medicare coverage, mandatory mail order, generic conversions and much more. Amid the turmoil, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers and employers — armed with new cost strategies — continue the fight to control soaring pharmaceutical expenses.

Rely on Drug Benefit News for timely news and data on the business of pharmaceuticals … and practical cost management strategies from experts throughout the industry.

The biweekly newsletter focuses on issues and events that have a big impact on the pharmacy benefit and drug costs, including:

• New generic drug launches and their impact on payers
• The details of transparent PBM arrangements
• Implementation strategies for sponsors of the Medicare Part D benefit
• Prescribing trends in different drug categories
• Varying efforts to improve medication compliance and adherence
• New plan designs to promote formulary compliance and the use of lower-cost therapeutic alternatives, including over-the-counter products
• PBM consolidations and specialty pharmacy acquisitions, and their impact
• Updates on court decisions regarding new state legislation regulating PBMs
• The continuing debate over the savings opportunities from using retail vs. mail-order for 90-day supplies of chronic medications
• New benefit designs to steer use of the specialty pharmacy provider
• Medicaid Rx strategies for states — and new opportunities for vendors
• Impact of consumer-directed health plans on drug spending
• Use of evidence-based medicine to control drug costs
• E-prescribing initiatives that improve Rx compliance and lower costs

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Drug Benefit News is written by an editorial team with extensive experience in pharma/health care business publishing, including Neal Learner, Angela Maas, Susan Namovicz-Peat and Executive Editor James Gutman.

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