{"title":"How Employers Are Looking at Specialty Pharmacy Today.","authors":"David Morris, Alex Palermo","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The cost and complexity of specialty medications are keeping employers and plan administrators up at night. A 2016 survey found that large group employers (100+ full-time employees) struggle with specialty drug trend and cost management, using a variety of unconnected tools and techniques. This article outlines employer challenges and suggests a medical/pharmacy integration paradigm as a successful model for controlling costs and improving health outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":79563,"journal":{"name":"Benefits quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Benefits quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The cost and complexity of specialty medications are keeping employers and plan administrators up at night. A 2016 survey found that large group employers (100+ full-time employees) struggle with specialty drug trend and cost management, using a variety of unconnected tools and techniques. This article outlines employer challenges and suggests a medical/pharmacy integration paradigm as a successful model for controlling costs and improving health outcomes.