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AMCP Review

During this year's Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 27th Annual Meeting & Expo, national experts tackled critical topics in the managed care pharmacy arena. Access the information you may have missed in this post-conference installment.

Highlights

Explosion of specialty drugs challenges U.S. healthcare market

The explosive growth in the specialty drug sector challenges the sustainability of the U.S. health system because there are not enough loss-of-earnings offsets to cover the increases. Read more.

The benefit of integrating pharmacists into patient care teams

Clinical pharmacists integrated into patient care teams have the potential to improve medication measures as well as support cost-effective medication use. Read more.

Pharmacists need to track quality performance measures

Managed care pharmacists should track their performance on medication measures included in Medicare’s new Five-Star Quality Rating System to help guide improvement efforts. Read more.

Public payment and delivery reform initiatives foreshadow private market changes

The incentives unfolding in both the public and private insurance markets that include providers assuming more financial risk will impact prescribing decisions for specialty pharmaceuticals. Read more.

Post-Conference coverage

Check the AMCP section for added content each day, click here for more

April 24, 2015

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