Approximately 1.2 million individuals live with HIV/AIDS in the United States. This population is at an increased risk of opportunistic infections (OIs), an area where pharmacists have significant potential to make meaningful interventions.
For patients with psoriasis and/or psoriatic arthritis, actual-to-expected dosing ratios and costs were lower for etanercept than for ustekinumab.
Despite triptan availability as a migraine-specific rescue, the global burden of migraine morbidity remains high.
The Illinois pharmacy chain has attained success as a result of good planning and successful marketing strategies.
Total cost of care for patients whose glycated hemoglobin levels were
As healthcare spending continues to rise, more employers, managed care organizations, and pharmacy benefit managers are implementing novel pharmacy benefit designs and formulary management policies to control drug spending.
Over the past 2 decades, the cancer death rate has drastically declined in the United States, falling 23% from its 1991 peak. This translates to 1.7 million lives saved.
Isatuximab-ifrc is the third monoclonal antibody approved for the treatment of R/R MM.
Significant factors for 2011 prescription utilization include the recession, change in employment rate, new generic and brand launches, and changes in Baby Boomers' retirement plans.
Payer response to new entrants to the multiple sclerosis (MS) market is mixed as some believe that there remain meaningful, major unmet needs in the MS category, according to The Zitter Group's Spring 2011 Managed Care Biologics and Injectables Index.
The COVID-19 pandemic made a convincing argument to employers of having a robust and sound communication strategy to their employees.
Diabetes is a complex disease affecting 29.1 million individuals in the United States.
Approximately 35 million individuals are currently living with HIV/AIDS.
When an ACO succeeds in both delivering high-quality care and spending health care dollars more wisely, it will share in the savings it achieves for the Medicare program.
What are some of the pitfalls that a pharmacy needs to avoid when setting up a relationship with a pharma manufacturer to accept authorizations from individuals to release information to that manufacturer?
Allergic rhinitis is a condition that keeps noses and pharmacists running.
An activity-based cost accounting model of melanoma care was used to identify key cost drivers and opportunities for stakeholder innovation.
Combining medication history information from multiple sources improves the completeness and accuracy of the medication information.
A state-of-the-art predictive analysis tool that finds patients with rare diseases in a complex database could be valuable to stakeholders, who would achieve savings by helping physicians prescribe the appropriate treatment sooner.
Controlling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a priority for health systems worldwide; recently updated guidelines provide strategies for diagnosis, management, and prevention.
Expensive specialty drugs are a growing concern that are traditionally overlooked in drug diversion efforts.
Defining multiple sclerosis helps pinpoint what therapies work best for patients.
The largest annual US health care conference dedicated to specialty pharmacy returns April 29 through May 2, 2018.
Smoking and obesity account for a significant number of cancers worldwide.