Given the dramatic price increases, utilization, and trends associated with specialty medications today, you need the tools and knowledge to evaluate and generate a management approach for these products. In this session, you will learn how to combine and evaluate medical and prescription drug data. Employers, Health Plans, and all other Payers will understand how to develop an action plan to better address this important area of the benefit.
Join Brent Priday, senior director of managed care at Banner Health Plan Administration, and Connie Perry, PharmD, vice president of practice leadership at Thomson Reuters to:
- Learn how to assess your current specialty drug spend and specific trend drivers
- Understand metrics that incorporate both medical and prescription drug components of the specialty spend
- Discover various methods for enhanced management of specialty pharmacy
- Recognize the importance of claims assessment and auditing under specialty pharmacy
Banner Health, like other plan sponsors, is experiencing upward trends and costs applicable to specialty medication. By evaluating and developing a comprehensive approach to data dissection and ongoing plan design changes, they continue to manage their expenditures in this category. Based in Phoenix, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit healthcare systems in the country, with over 35,000 employees and 22 hospitals in seven states, surgi-centers, physician clinics, and an array of other services.
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