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Specialty
Pharmacy
75 percent of employers offer a specialty pharmacy benefit. However,
a detailed review of the cost sharing data supplied by employers indicates
that specialty cost share amounts typically fall under the preferred
or nonpreferred brand amounts.
Slightly more than half of the employers — 51.5% — require
those specialty drugs reimbursed under the drug benefit to be dispensed
by the pharmacy benefit manager’s designated pharmacy (see Table
7).
Future surveys will monitor these dispensing arrangements to identify
trends in how employers are managing specialty pharmacy.
The article Proactive Management for Specialty Pharmacy discusses
approaches to managing the costs of these expensive therapies.
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