Serve You Rx Teams Up with Waltz Health to Advance Specialty Pharmacy
Through a new partnership, Serve You Rx is leveraging Waltz Health's AI-powered specialty pharmacy platform.
How Health Systems Can Thrive in Navigating the Specialty Pharmacy Landscape
Specialty pharmacies must meet complex requirements, introducing administrative requirements that can be challenging for health systems to manage internally. Here some strategies that can be employed.
Tackling Rising Drug Costs and Growing Popularity of GLP-1’s
See how Quantum Health is providing the steps to help their members tackle the cost of specialty medications and other drugs.
Why This Health Plan Moved Away from Exclusive Relationships with Specialty Pharmacies
Several years ago, Highmark began questioning its exclusive relationships with specialty pharmacies and started working with Free Market Health, which matches patients to the pharmacy that best fits their needs.
Some of the Biggest Healthcare Stories from 2024 Involved Pharmacy. What’s Next in 2025?
Regulators will have their work cut out for them under a new administration that has expressed an anti-regulatory preference. Republicans next year will control the White House, Senate and House. What will it all mean for pharmacy leaders?
Managing the Specialty Drug Cost Challenge: Is Your Pharmacy Benefits Strategy Ready for 2025?
What concrete strategies should employers pursue to control rising costs while ensuring the best member experience and clinical outcomes?
An Integrated Approach to Optimizing Specialty Pharmacy and Accelerating Performance
Top challenges impacting specialty pharmacy outcomes, and how health systems may achieve efficiencies and enhance performance for optimal outcomes.
Understanding EGPA: The Role of Eosinophils and Advancements in Treatment Options
FASENRA® (benralizumab) injection, for subcutaneous use, 30 mg is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA). FASENRA provides a treatment option for HCPs to consider when managing this challenging disease.
Waltz Health Unveils New Solution to Lower Specialty Medication Costs
Waltz Health launched Waltz Connect on Monday. The solution supports payers and aims to lower specialty drug costs.
Specialty Pharmacy: A Sound Strategy to Weather Hospital Financial Storms, Enhance Patient Care
In addition to increasing medication access for underserved populations, an in-house specialty pharmacy improves patient care and provides opportunities for efficiency and enhancement across hospital operations.
Quantum Health Launches New Pharmacy Navigation Solution for Employers
Quantum Health launched its Premier Pharmacy navigation solution on Tuesday. The solution helps members find safe and effective therapeutic alternatives to expensive medications.
Pivot Podcast: A Conversation with Capital Rx CEO A.J. Loiacono
Season 2 of the MedCity Pivot Podcast has launched with a special focus on the evolution of pharmacy and pharmacy benefit management. The first guest this season is A.J. Loiacono, who leads Capital Rx.
Consultants: Help Define What’s Next In Healthcare Benefits
Help shape the future of healthcare benefits by sharing your insights.
How Will Walgreens’ Expansion into Specialty Pharmacy Affect the Industry?
Walgreens announced that it is expanding its specialty pharmacy offerings. Experts think that this move could yield several strategic benefits, given the higher profit margins associated with specialty medications compared to traditional drugs. They also think Walgreens’ move could lead to greater competition, consolidation and innovation within the broader pharmacy industry.
Why Every Hospital Needs a Chief Pharmacy Officer in the C-Suite
A CPO in the C-suite determines how a health system can move from a cost center to a revenue center with healthy operating margins by investing in specialty pharmacy services that reduce burden for healthcare staff and improve care for patients.
What Drives Specialty Medication Enrollment Conversions? It’s Not What You Think.
We can no longer simply worry about the enrollment form as the only hurdle in therapy initiation. We must view the entire patient journey as an interconnected set of challenges that need solving. And I believe achieving that goal is within reach.
How Tech is Saving Time for Specialty Pharmacies and Improving the Patient Experience
In an interview, Surescripts’ Clinical Product Advisor Cecelia Byers shared how the company is working to simplify prescribing and obtaining specialty medications.
From Bottlenecks to Breakthroughs: Using Technology to Transform Specialty Medication Access and Affordability
We need a streamlined approach where stakeholders can perform all critical tasks — from enrollment and patient consent to prior authorization, from real-time benefit checks to financial assistance — on a central platform powered by a business rules engine, automated workflows, and real-time analytics.