Press Release: A recent Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy forum of stakeholders representing payers, patients, government, and pharmaceutical companies found broad consensus on critical issues.
Press Release: More than 2,500 managed care pharmacy professionals from across the country gathered in the heart of Texas this week for dozens of educational sessions and discussions on how to boost outcomes and control costs for the roughly 270 million Americans covered by a managed pharmacy benefit.
Press Releases: Four leading health care experts are generally optimistic that the U.S. will successfully address one of the fiercest challenges facing the health care system: paying for often spectacular, but high-cost gene and other curative therapies.
Press Release: The perception of what is "valuable" in any particular therapy can vary widely between providers, patients and payers, according to panelists at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation's 7th Annual Research Symposium.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation is delighted to announce that eight student pharmacists from across the country recently completed summer internship programs organized by the Foundation and supported by Pfizer, Inc.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation is delighted to announce that two student pharmacists recently completed a summer internship organized by the Foundation and supported by Genentech, Inc.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation is delighted to announce that two student pharmacists recently completed a summer internship organized by the Foundation and supported by Allergan Plc.
Press Release: More than 2,200 managed care professionals will convene Oct. 16-19 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas, to take on two of the hottest issues facing health care
Press Release: Lowering the out-of-pocket costs of blood glucose testing strips can improve diabetes patients’ persistence with home monitoring, according to an article in the August 2017 issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP).
Conclusions reached in a recent New York Times article on outcomes-based contracting are premature, if not inaccurate, stated Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, adding, “It’s still the early innings for outcomes-based, or value-based, contracting for prescription drugs, and therefore, too soon to dismiss.”
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) commends the House for its passage yesterday of H.R. 2430, the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017. H.R. 2430 reauthorizes FDA’s critical user fee programs.
Press Release: The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health held a hearing today on the “Pharmaceutical Information Exchange (PIE) Act of 2017” (H.R. 2026).
Press Release: Diverse stakeholders representing managed care pharmacy, provider groups, integrated delivery systems and the biopharmaceutical industry this week developed key strategies to enable the expansion of “value-based contracting.”
Press Release: AMCP CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, comments on today's unanimous vote by the House Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee to approve legislation reauthorizing the FDA’s user fee programs.
Press Release: To address escalating drug costs, health care payers increasingly are adopting benefit designs that aim to identify and pay for medications based on their value.
Press Release: Increased collaboration, improved decision-making support tools and greater use of value-based contracting are among the recommendations to address the accelerating pace of oncology products coming to market each year.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation fulfilled a significant part of its philanthropic mission last month with two successful giving campaigns
Press Release: While improved adherence to diabetes medications is associated with higher drug costs, it also is associated with lower inpatient, outpatient and emergency room costs, according to a study in this month’s Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP)
Press Release: While improved adherence to diabetes medications is associated with higher drug costs, it also is associated with lower inpatient, outpatient and emergency room costs, according to a study in this month’s Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP).
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation is pleased to announce the addition of Summerpal Kahlon, MD, to its Board of Trustees.