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Managed Care May 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Medication Therapy Management May Finally Enter the Mainstream Pharmacies can now take advantage of CPT codes to bill insurers for direct patient care. Will private payers follow Medicare in offering this service?
Managed Care October 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Asheville's Legacy: Pharmacy Moves From Dispensing to Clinical Management It is an idea whose time has finally come: Today's clinical pharmacists are involved in virtually all aspects of medical care.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 Ben Comer	Take as Directed: From Force to Finesse in Promoting Adherence Healthcare players tout patient education and engagement as the keys to better drug adherence rates. Patients agree, as long as that translates to convenient and affordable access to therapy.
Managed Care October 2001 Patrick Mullen	Interview: Pharmacists in Need The executive vice president and CEO of the American Pharmaceutical Association says pharmacists are being inundated and need help...
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Ken Getz	Building Clinical Trial Awareness for Patients: Why Not Try the Pharmacist? The author explains how building a stakeholder outreach agenda around the community pharmacist can lead to a better outcome in managing the complex ins and outs of a trial protocol.
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2011 William Looney	The Medicines Adherence Challenge Keeping skittish patients on their medicines ought to be a strategic priority for Big Pharma, but is it? An expert round table examines how best to make progress and agree on some practical steps for incorporation in the campaign agenda.
Managed Care December 2001 MargaretAnn Cross	Increased Pressures Change P&T Committee Makeup Formulary committees once were stocked with academics and administrators. Today, primary care physicians, specialists, and retail pharmacists play a bigger role, and tomorrow's membership will be even more diverse...
Managed Care May 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Part D Means Health Plans Will Have To Pay Pharmacists Medication therapy management helps people to stay on their prescribed regimens. Part D plans can expect to start making payments for the service in 2007.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2006 Mike Mallett	Marketing to Professionals: Penetrate the Point of Purchase Leverage mystery shoppers, and improve patient compliance through local pharmacists.
Job Journal August 21, 2005 Julia Hollister	As America Ages, Pharmacists Flourish Demand for more druggists is swelling as baby boomers age. According to Department of Labor statistics, the outlook for employment is excellent and that trend is expected to continue for at least the next seven years.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Phil Patrick	Marketing to Professionals: Senior-Care Specialists Surge In light of the growing senior population, pharmaceutical marketers are building partnerships with senior specialists.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010	Pharmacies are Our Friends An underutilized sales resource, pharmacies and their staffs can help lead to improved scrip fulfillment and increased business.
Job Journal July 27, 2008 Julia Hollister	Pharmacy Careers: Filling the Needs of an Aging Nation America's aging population ensures long-term demand for pharmacy specialists.
Managed Care April 2002 Rhonda Greenapple	HMOs Have Stake in Quelling Anger at Drug Store Counters Dissatisfied customers have a tendency to lash out and not be very discriminating about their targets. Prescription: Reduce the hassle...
Managed Care September 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Specialty Pharmacy Grows As Cost-Control Option As the population ages, specialty pharmacy is becoming a unique, profitable, and invaluable delivery system. Plans are increasingly turning to specialty pharmacies to provide the expertise they lack.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 Jennifer Ringler	The Adherence Fight: A TKO? Why does the match against medicines compliance always seem to end in an easy knockout?
Managed Care June 2004 Jack McCain	P&T Committees in Position To Reduce Medication Errors Pharmacy & Therapeutics Society works with Institute of Medicine and Leapfrog Group to improve processes.
Managed Care February 2006 Martin Sipkoff	'Put All Your Drugs Into a Bag and Take It to Your Pharmacist' Health plans, with their view of the complete spectrum of patient care, are in a unique position to identify problems with polypharmacy.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2013 William Looney	Recognizing the Best Getting patients to take their medicine on spec and on time is the challenge that never goes away; it's the deadweight baggage accompanying every industry innovation since the arrival of aspirin a century ago.
Managed Care March 2006 Martin Sipkoff	Introducing an ROI Model For Pharmacy Services The finance department and pharmacy are not speaking the same language. This model might just bridge that divide.
Job Journal February 25, 2007	Career Snapshot: Pharmacy Technician The shortage of both pharmacists and pharmacist technicians is projected to get worse, meaning plenty of job opportunities.
Managed Care March 2007 Martin Sipkoff	Plans, PBMs, Employers Prod Docs To E-Prescribe Widespread adoption of electronic prescribing is inevitable, yet physicians still resist. Various coalitions and initiatives are trying to make adoption easier.
Managed Care April 2007 Frank Diamond	What If? Health care economists and others imagine a society in which managed care had never been invented.
Job Journal November 28, 2004 Rich Heintz	Medical Careers: The Rx for Offshoring Looking for a career no one (as yet) can outsource overseas? Consider a position in healthcare. Here are three examples -- medical careers critical to the care of an aging population.
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2013 Al Topin	The Doctor-Patient Disconnect Doctor-patient conversations aren't always what we think; this basic interaction represents both a problem and an opportunity for today's drug marketers, says the author.
Managed Care December 2004 Adler & Schukman	The Role of Managed Care In Patient Safety & Error Reduction Patient safety and medical errors have become the focus of increasing attention from the public, policymakers, and accreditation agencies. Managed care organizations clearly are important stakeholders in this issue.
Managed Care July 2001 Maureen Glabman	Provider Shortage Puts HMOs In Bind Increasing demand for physicians and physician extenders is starting to strain the system. To a large extent, this is unexpected bitter fruit of managed care's labor...
Managed Care February 2002 Bob Carlson	Proposal To Regulate Formularies Draws Sharp Difference of Opinion The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has spent two years developing a model. Drug companies like it; health plans don't...
Managed Care July 2000 John Carroll	Physicians Reconsider Taking On Pharmacy Risk They've been burned here in the past, but physicians - and the HMOs that they contract with - may have learned some lessons.
Managed Care August 2001 Patrick Mullen	The Expanding Role of Pharmacists Lobbying in Washington, monitoring state legislation and generally looking out for the interests of pharmacy programs run by health care plans and pharmacy benefit managers, Judith Cahill leads the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy at an exciting, critical time...
Managed Care May 2003 Wayne Miller	Higher Drug Copays Now Might Cause Problems Later The long-term impact of noncompliance must be considered before copayments are increased. This is especially true where chronic conditions are concerned.
American Family Physician January 15, 2007 Pollock et al.	Appropriate Prescribing of Medications: An Eight-Step Approach These eight steps, along with ongoing self-directed learning, compose a systematic approach to prescribing that is efficient and practical for the family physician.
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Al Topin	Less Selling, More Time What can happen when pharmaceutical reps focus on the physician-patient conversation?
Managed Care August 2004 Alan Lotvin	Specialty Pharmacy Presents Unique Set of Challenges Only a small percent of a typical health plan's population takes medicine for conditions outside the generalist's scope. But it's a big portion of the drug bill.
Managed Care August 2005 Michael S. Victoroff	When Personal and Professional Collide When a pharmacist - for personal beliefs - refuses to fill a prescription, the health plan should be very concerned.
Managed Care June 2002 Jeffry R. Ellis	Third-Party Payers Don't Realize Burdens Placed on Pharmacists PBMs and HMOs, by imposing a workload that doesn't allow enough time for needed functions, seem to want pharmacists to fail, this author asserts.
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2011 Jon Zifferblat	China: Business as UNusual If there is one market that requires a click on the 'refresh' button, it's China. General Biologic provides a snapshot of what's ahead for Big Pharma in the country
Managed Care January 2008 Thomas Kaye	Now Is the Time for Pharmacy Performance Incentives We've made strides in increasing the transparency of pricing in the pharmacy supply chain, and now we need to change dispensing behavior.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler	Pre-emption and States' Rights Pharma backs federal standards for compassionate use, drug importing, data transparency, and track-and-trace.
Managed Care December 2004	Go West, Young Pharmacist The pharmacy profession continues to pay well, though where somebody practices has much to do with just how well, according to the 2004 Pharmacy Compensation Survey.
Managed Care March 2005 Frank Diamond	Kaiser's Asthma Outcomes Will Take Your Breath Away The company's Mid-Atlantic States Region has seen impressive savings since launching a disease management program for asthma.
Managed Care September 2005 Martin Sipkoff	Mail Order Pharmacy Saves Money, Says PCMA, but at What Cost? The savings to consumers and employers are apparent, but are health plans left holding the bag in mail-order pharmacy?
Managed Care April 2002 Paula Sirois	HMOs Should Prepare Now To Get Handle on Injectables With more than 360 biotech products in the pipeline, high-cost injectable drugs are about to flood the market. How will we control the expenditure?
Managed Care February 2002 Joyce Ochs	E-Prescribing Gets More Enticing Physicians today are writing prescriptions for patients on palm-held devices that seem eerily akin to medical practice on the Starship Enterprise...
Managed Care January 2008 Martin Sipkoff	Should Pharmacists Be Allowed To Vaccinate Their Patients? Although federal health agencies support the idea of having pharmacists administer vaccines to their patients, the roadblock continues to be a question of payment.
Managed Care September 2007 Frank Diamond	Pay for Performance in Pharmacy Is More Theory Than Reality Even if the the goal of pay-for-performance pharmacy programs is unattainable in this country, working toward it might produce interesting experiments in cost efficiency.
Managed Care August 2004 MargaretAnn Cross	Employers Take the Lead In Drug Benefit Design Companies test new approaches to funding the pharmacy benefit with the goal of saving money overall.
Managed Care June 2007 Lola Butcher	What the Devil Is Information Therapy? Welcome to information therapy, the practice of providing more and better information to patients so they can contribute more to their healing.
Chemistry World June 5, 2015	A prescription for chemists The Public attitudes to chemistry survey revealed that many people confuse chemists with pharmacists.
Managed Care March 2000 Tim Sawyers	Test Prospective PBM Before Signing Contract How to select, then monitor a pharmacy benefit management company, from a consultant and former HMO director of pharmacy services.