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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? |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 Debbie Warner |
Adapting to a New Era of Cancer Care Coverage and treatment decisions will be driven by value and defined differently by each stakeholder. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2013 |
Roundtable on Market Access Market Access is a window on what matters in the real world of soaring patient expectations and crimped payer budgets for innovation. |
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 February 1, 2013 William Looney |
Pathways to Progress Cancer is increasingly understood as a collection of rare and mostly treatable conditions rather than the impregnable, monolith portrayed in popular culture. Industry experts review current and pending efforts to turn great science into good practice. |
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. |
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 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 November 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
Outrage Grows Over Drug Pricing Insurers, physicians attack high-cost therapies in anticipation of specialty drug surge. |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2011 William Looney |
Keeping Your Place on the Nifty 50 What do the Pharm Exec 50 numbers tell us? The dominant theme seems to be one of gradual restructuring toward a post-patent-cliff era. |
Managed Care August 2007 Martin Sipkoff |
Soaring Price of Cancer Drugs Leads Plans To New Approaches Insurers are trying different methods, from pay for performance to promoting preventive care, to hold down cost of chemotherapy drugs. |
Managed Care September 2005 John Carroll |
Plans Struggle for Control of Specialty Pharma Costs Biotech drugs are a quickly growing component of health plan budgets. Here are the latest management techniques. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2012 Jill Wechsler |
Who Will Pay for New Drugs? Comparative research documenting value and affordability is key to obtaining coverage for high-cost therapies. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2009 |
Pay For Play The P4P movement is here. Pharma marketers, it's time to take note. |
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 |
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 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? |
Pharmaceutical Executive September 1, 2011 Don Creighton |
Bridging the Hidden Hurdle in Cancer Cures Diagnostics can boast the efficacy of drug treatments, but delivering the promise depends on a predictable pathway to reimbursement. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2012 Lauri Mitchell |
Who Pays for Specialty Medicines? Providers and patients fish for that delicate balance between access and abandonment. |
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. |
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? |
Pharmaceutical Executive May 1, 2007 Patrick Clinton |
The Topic of Cancer What will tomorrow's cancer commercialization model really look like? We asked four heavyweights from the world of oncology what they thought. |
Managed Care January 2008 Peter Kongstvedt |
The Managed Care Forecast Here are some of the challenges that health insurers face this year. |
The Motley Fool August 24, 2011 Brandon Glenn |
Cardinal Health Sees Opportunity (but Faces Challenges) in Specialty Drugs Is Cardinal up for the challenge? |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2013 Desai & Anbil |
Specialty Service Programs: Gearing up for Next Generation Technologies Innovation in hub program design for patient scrip data and clinical support services can lead to increased market share in the hotly contested specialty medicine space. |
Managed Care January 2007 |
The Use of Therapeutic Interchange For Biologic Therapies The stated goal of therapeutic interchange is to achieve an improved or neutral outcome with the new agent while reducing overall treatment costs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2011 Lujing Wang |
The Payoff for Payers Thorough risk assessment is essential before placing bets on good evidence that clears a path to approval. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2012 Andrea Sobrio |
Innovative Contracting: What is the Verdict? Industry is finding it harder to secure market access and payer uptake for new products. Innovative contracting may offer a solution. Is it working? |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2014 Anbil et al. |
Managed Markets: Positioning Your Product For Success with Pull Through Strategies A patient-centric approach to drug development delivers the benefits that actually create value |
Managed Care March 2008 |
Specialty Drug Spending to Double by 2010 Additional indications for existing products, rather than new products, account for the bulk of increased specialty drug use. |
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. |
Managed Care November 2005 Patrick Mullen |
This Biologics Industry Spokesman Knows That Health Plans Can Only be Won Over by the Financial Argument. Biotech's focus is expanding from products that treat relatively rare diseases to treatments for conditions that affect much larger populations, including various cancers, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and asthma because of health plan costs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive January 1, 2012 William Looney |
Pharma 2012: Hard Times Before the Harvest 2012 will be a transition year for pharma, one of the most important in its history. The challenge is that many new treatments may not complete the move from 'bench to bedside' in time to plug the yawning revenue gap. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 1, 2014 William Looney |
The Trials of Commerce Four commercial line executives serve as our jury of peers on what's in store for the future of pharma, and discuss the changing criteria for market success, from drugs to consumer products to vaccines. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2014 William Looney |
The Call to Community: A Conversation with Dr. David Nash Population health is the foundation for much of what is truly new in US health reform. For big Pharma, it represents yet another escalation in expectations. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2005 Brian Gorman |
Glaxo Follows the Biotechs The company's new focus on cancer drugs looks like a good move. Investors, take note. |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2013 William Looney |
Payers: Late for the Party? Pharm Exec's two key features this month illustrate the strategic contradiction facing today's industry. |
CIO September 26, 2013 Stephanie Overby |
Big Data Project Cuts Prescription Costs Express Scripts analytics portal helps doctors prescribe more cost-effective medicines. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2010 |
The Sum of All His Parts: Career Reflections of Europe's Chief Drug Regulator The European Medicines Agency is a unique institution, pursuing a mandate shared with a complex web of national and regional groups, each able to place a distinctive imprint around the delicate task of certifying the safety and efficacy of new drugs. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2011 |
2011 Dealmakers Outlook With Yankee stadium as the backdrop, Pharm Exec convened on March 29 its annual panel of eight business development experts to crack the bat on best practice in licensing for the year ahead. |
Pharmaceutical Executive April 10, 2014 |
Obama Policies Reshape Pharma Marketing Health reform initiatives promote transparency, challenge reimbursement, writes Jill Wechsler. |
Managed Care October 2007 Lola Butcher |
Can Insurer, Oncology Practice Really Work Together? Premera Blue Cross and a large Spokane oncology practice agree on treatment protocols and on the importance of cost control. |
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. |
Pharmaceutical Executive December 1, 2006 Rod Cavin |
Forecasting Medicare: Price Controls in the Years Ahead Part D in 2010 will be under price and access pressure. Pharma should develop plans for the future by imagining best- and worst-case scenarios. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2014 Jill Wechsler |
What Price Innovation? Payers, drug plans seek clear assessment of drug value to rationalize high drug prices. |
Managed Care August 2007 |
Managed Care Outlook Specialty drugs increasingly used to treat chronic conditions. |
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 William Looney |
Innovation at Pfizer A Q and A with Kristin Peck, the drug maker's Executive Vice President, Worldwide Business Development and Innovation. |