The Pharmaceutical Trifecta: Using Technology to Improve Healthcare
In our previous blog, we touched on the rapidly evolving landscape of the U.S. healthcare market by looking at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently passed value-based payment models (1) and how pharmacies could find opportunity in these...
Value-Based Payment Models: Can Pharmacies Find Opportunity in CMS’s MIPS and APMs?
The healthcare landscape in the United States is rapidly evolving. In 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its Final Rule of Medicare Access and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) Reauthorization Act (MACRA). This...
Rebate Sharing: A Way to Lower Drug Costs or Sleight of Hand?
What if seniors who enrolled in Medicare’s Part D prescription benefit were allowed to participate in the same prescription drug rebates that PBMs negotiate on behalf of insurers? In an effort to make good on his campaign promise to lower prescription drug prices,...
Independent Pharmacy: Trends to Know for 2018
With 2017 in the books, it’s time to turn our attention, once again, to what independent pharmacies might expect in the coming year. Industry trends change — often. And, independent pharmacies must stay up-to-date on these evolutions to remain successful. Because...