These AMCP, AMCP Learn, and Journal of Managed Care + Specialty Pharmacy resources can help increase our understanding of health disparities, their impact, and the role of managed care pharmacy in mitigating them.
The Health Equity Action Brief on Geographic Inequality highlights a concerning trend of widening geographic inequality over the past four decades and what managed care can do to address these potential policy biases.
AMCP supports a wide range of measures that strike a balance between market-oriented principles and prudent regulations. Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) help facilitate patient access to medication at an affordable price.
The AMCP Health Disparities Advisory Group conducted a landscape assessment to understand the role of managed care pharmacy in identifying and addressing health care disparities. Explore their findings and discover opportunities to dismantle inherent health disparities by downloading the assessment.
The Disabilities Health Equity Action Brief provides an overview of the barriers to medication use and health outcomes due to disabilities, and how managed care can identify the gaps in care and develop interventions to address these health inequities due to disabilities for their health plan members.
The social determinants of health (SDOH) Health Equity Action Brief provides an overview of the impact of social risk factors on medication use and health outcomes and describes how managed care can develop interventions to address these inequities.
The sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) Health Equity Action Brief includes an overview of the importance of addressing the inequities related to this topic and how managed care can foster an inclusive environment for everyone.