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Managed Care November 2005	Plans Change Tactics As Costs Keep Rising For Specialty Drugs With specialty drug costs continually increasing, CuraScript expects to see a significant shift in the percentage of plans exclusively classifying specialty drugs under the medical benefit.
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 August 2007	Managed Care Outlook Specialty drugs increasingly used to treat chronic conditions.
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.
The Motley Fool August 10, 2004 Brian Gorman	Biotech Cost Control Will the high cost of therapies slow sales in the sector? Investors can avoid problems by paying close attention to companies' pipelines and reimbursement trends.
Managed Care June 2006 John Carroll	When New Drugs Are Costly, How High to Raise Copays? As some pretty costly, yet very useful, drugs are introduced, will new formulary designs deny access to needy patients?
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler	Drug Coverage, Costs Under Scrutiny Benefits offered by insurance plans on health exchanges and through Medicare are raising concerns about patient access to needed therapies
Managed Care February 2005	Biggest increases in specialty drug costs seen in rheumatologic, cancer, and hemophilia agents Medco reports that of the top seven contributors to specialty drug costs, agents for rheumatologic conditions (80.6 percent), cancer (33.2 percent), and hemophilia (28.4 percent) demonstrated the greatest percent change in cost from 2002 to 2003.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2006 Brian Gorman	Biogeneric Payoff? A new report indicates that spending on specialty drugs increased 17.5% in 2005. This growth bodes well for makers of biotech drugs, which make up a large portion of the specialty drug category. Investors, take note.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler	Outrage Grows Over Drug Pricing Insurers, physicians attack high-cost therapies in anticipation of specialty drug surge.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 9, 2014 Kleinrock & Noor	Pharm Exec's Pharma 50 2014 For those companies in this year's Pharm Exec Top 50, meeting the accelerating market demand for specialty products has become an acute strategic imperative.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 O'Connor et al.	Challenges to the Specialty Business Model New constraints require new solutions. Innovative, value-based pricing models will be critical to securing reimbursement and continued market access of high-price drugs.
The Motley Fool December 21, 2004 Charly Travers	Invest With Fewer Side Effects Averse to risk? Check out these nontraditional drug companies: Biogen Idec... Elan... Salix Pharmaceuticals... Atrix Laboratories... etc.
Managed Care September 2003 Thomas Morrow	Managed Care Strategy: Create Competition In Expanding Biotech Field The biotech field is booming, and insurers are scrambling to find ways to deal with the high costs of new "biologic" treatments. One strategy is to try to create more competition among the producers of biotech drugs.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010	When the Payer IS the Player As Medicare, Medicaid, and the nation's web of private payers gain market power, how can pharma stay ahead of the cost-containment curve?
The Motley Fool December 31, 2010 Brian Orelli	How the Other Half of Pharma Lives A dive into spec pharma.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2012 Lauri Mitchell	Who Pays for Specialty Medicines? Providers and patients fish for that delicate balance between access and abandonment.
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2012 Stan Bernard	The Payer C Change: From Customers to Competitors "Payers have evolved to become powerful global contenders with pharma for increasingly limited funding of drug budgets." Understanding why and how this payer shift to dominance occurred is critical for pharmaceutical professionals in adjusting their business model.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Brandon Glenn	Cardinal Health Sees Opportunity (but Faces Challenges) in Specialty Drugs Is Cardinal up for the challenge?
Managed Care July 2006	Specialty Anti-Inflammatories See Huge Increase in Utilization Americans spent 34% more for specialty anti-inflammatory agents used to treat rheumatoid arthritis in 2005 than any other specialty drug category.
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2010	Taking a Less-Generic Route to Generics A leading pharmaceutical industry player speaks out on what is fueling success in the sector.
Managed Care May 2004	Biologics Among Fastest Growers Managed care plans and pharmacy benefit managers can benefit from the strong generic presence in the market, but also face challenges relating to biotech drugs.
Managed Care December 2003 Tony Berberabe	Why Do FEHBP and Big Unions Excel at Managing Drug Costs? Pharmacy benefit managers can do only so much to keep drug price increases in the single digits. Initiatives instituted by health plans can help in this effort.
Managed Care April 2005 Thomas Morrow	Specialty Pharmacy Meets Niche Company Expertise As new specialty pharmacy care becomes more dominant, companies devoted to managing these products and their associated costs are finding a market.
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.
CIO September 26, 2013 Stephanie Overby	Big Data Project Cuts Prescription Costs Express Scripts analytics portal helps doctors prescribe more cost-effective medicines.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2011 Bryan White	Rising Star Buy: Medco Health Medco has a much brighter future than its current stock price implies.
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...
BusinessWeek March 7, 2005 Amy Barrett	A Drug Company On Growth Hormones By adding Accredo to its portfolio, Medco gains a strong presence in the area of specialty drugs. Investors sent Medco's stock down slightly on news of the deal. But they give company chief David B. Snow Jr. credit for putting Medco in a position to capitalize on new opportunities.
The Motley Fool March 4, 2005 Tom Taulli	In the Express Scripts Lane Express Scripts' strong results bring a much-needed lift to health-care investors.
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Rubinstein & Galardi	Bustin' a CAP: The Competative Acquisition Program The new Competitive Acquisition Program for Medicare Part B drugs aims to align market forces with the distribution of drugs and biologics that doctors administer in their offices, but increasing bureaucracy is a major downside.
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2007	Thoughtleader: Thomas Nagle, Strategic Pricing Group This industry consultant believes the U.S. government will soon follow Europe's lead in taking a greater hand in price negotiations, and pharma will need to be able to communicate the value that products offer. Here he discusses how pharma can meet that challenge.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2010 Brian Orelli	A Witty Response to Pharma's R&D Dilemma According to GlaxoSmithKline CEO Andrew Witty, the pharmaceutical industry is a mess. That's the basic gist of his opinion piece in The Economist.
The Motley Fool February 28, 2005 Brian Gorman	Medco Covers Its Bases Medco's purchase of Accredo is a nod to future growth in biotech drug spending.
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 Michael Goodman	A Very Specialty Moment Big Pharma is on a shopping spree for biologics and other specialty products. It has the money to buy them. But does it have the mojo to develop and market them successfully - or will the mid-size biopharmas make their big move?
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