What a specialty pharmacy service should be

Описание: There is a growing understanding in the benefits industry that one way to control drug plan costs is to give more attention to patients taking specialty drugs. After all, specialty medications account for only 2% of total claims, but an astonishing 31% of total spending* This is up from 15% of total spending as recently as 2008, and the trend shows no signs of abating.

The challenge is how to optimize spending in the specialty area while continuing to deliver the highest quality care to patients who, in most cases, are dealing with life-changing illnesses. With science making advances every day in the treatment of devastating conditions like cancer, hepatitis and other auto-immune diseases, nobody wants to restrict access to drugs that in some cases are the difference between life and death.
Instead, Express Scripts Canada (ESC) has developed one of the most advanced solutions for specialty medications in Canada, which does not limit access to medication, but does increase the chances that prescribed medications will be used to achieve optimal health outcomes. The difference is in the details of how the solution is designed, and those details are based on ESC’s vast knowledge of drug claiming behaviour, gained through years of processing health claims for millions of Canadians.

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*Express Scripts Canada Prescription Drug Trend Report (https://express-scripts.ca/knowledge-...)

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