title: Disease management ... drug data debate.
abstract: Desperately seeking a new way to generate profits, pharmacy benefit managers are trying to sell employers and HMOs on the notion of using their mountains of drug-claim information to manage chronic diseases. But skeptics point out that prescription data tell only part of the treatment story.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Muir
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000191:economics; D019468:Disease Management; D004345:Drug Industry; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000191:economics; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States