Research Reports
Pharmacy Benefits: Controlling Rx Drug Costs
Increased drug spending is the most important factor in the overall rise in
health care spending in the last few years, with consumer demand, lifestyle
changes, and the aging of America driving the growth in use of prescription
drugs.
Today, benefit managers and plan sponsors like you face mounting pressures to
keep cost and utilization under control and to respond to the growing dangers
that high-priced specialty and lifestyle drugs pose to the bottom line.
By combining exclusive survey results with expert opinions, published studies,
and anecdotal evidence, this IOMA Research Report provides your organization
with a blueprint for bringing its drug coverage costs under control. In it,
you’ll find:
- Exclusive survey results, including the strategies and philosophies that are integral to effective drug cost control in the responding companies, by size, location, or industry
- Independent looks at 8 cost-control strategies, evaluating both prevalence and effectiveness of each
- The role of the pharmaceutical industry behind the rise in drug costs
- Major drivers, demographic factors, and lifestyle and consumer demand factors
- Leading experts and analysts predict what’s ahead for 2007 and beyond in drug cost-control strategies
- Case studies of how organizations are controlling prescription drug costs
- Effectiveness scores of various cost-control methods
- Leading obstacles to effective cost control
- Resources for drug cost-control decision makers
This IOMA Research Report also examines the past, present, and future of drug
coverage costs to provide you with an in-depth look at what is working now and
what is on the horizon for your employee health plans, plus a proposed model
for strategic pharmaceutical cost control, including various practices currently
being deployed by companies.
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