title: Pharmacy risk: is it in your future?
abstract: This article discusses how Sutter Health's affiliated medical groups and independent practice associations (IPAs) prepared for entering a pharmacy risk agreement. It should serve as a primer for those providers contemplating pharmacy risk and is written in lay terms. Providers who expect not just to survive, but to thrive, in a capitated environment must approach pharmacy risk agreements with extreme caution.
authors.affiliation: Catholic Health Care Network Resources, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Aberle
mesh_terms: D000206:Actuarial Analysis; D002017:Budgets; D002140:California; D002204:Capitation Fee; D003256:Community Participation; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D016527:Drug Costs; D005569:Formularies as Topic; D006125:Group Practice, Prepaid / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D007193:Independent Practice Associations / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000191:economics*; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D020414:Risk Sharing, Financial