Costs
Risk Management Not Just Clinical for CAR-Ts: High Cost Also a Target
With more CAR-T therapies being approved or receiving expanded indications, balancing access, cost and risk ...
MAY 30, 2025
Team Approach Can Turn High-Cost Specialty Medications Into a ‘Win’ for Specialty Pharmacy
It takes a village for health systems to fully benefit from high-cost specialty medications, according to a new ...
JANUARY 8, 2025
Quantifying the Cost of SP ‘Outside’ Prescriptions
Interventions performed by health-system specialty pharmacists for patients who don’t fill their specialty ...
DECEMBER 15, 2024
Regulatory Reform Needed to Drive Biosimilar Adoption
Biosimilars generated $12.4 billion in savings in 2023, bringing the total savings since their introduction in 2015 ...
DECEMBER 14, 2024
Managing the High Cost of Specialty Medications
Employers and health plans are concerned about managing high-ticket items such as cell and gene therapies, and ...
DECEMBER 14, 2024
$1 Million Health Plan Savings for Hemophilia Gene Therapy Projected
A gene therapy product approved for adults with hemophilia B may increase initial costs for health plans but can ...
DECEMBER 13, 2024
HSSPs Avoid Unnecessary Costs Through Meaningful Interventions
Specialty medications exceeded half of overall drug expenditures in 2022, and make up the largest portion of drugs ...
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Congress Demands Answers From PBMs
The Federal Trade Commission accused the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) of practices that ...
AUGUST 5, 2024
Rise in Drug Spending Not Reflected in Hospital Pharmacies
A new ASHP report indicates that explosive growth in overall prescription drug spending in the United States had ...
JULY 23, 2024
New ACCC Guidelines Combat Financial Toxicity
With cancer treatment costs spiraling upward, the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) issued new ...
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
New CMS Payment Model Encourages Use of Novel Cancer Therapies
CMS implemented the five-year Enhancing Oncology Model to help more patients access novel cancer therapies at an ...
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Many Patients Will Still Need Financial Assistance Even With Inflation Reduction Act Drug Price Caps
Even after the Inflation Reduction Act’s out-of-pocket drug spending caps kick in for Medicare beneficiaries, ...
MAY 4, 2023
