Managing prescription drug costs.
This article reviews prescription drug cost trends, touching on issues such as cost versus value, demographic changes, direct-to-consumer advertising, effects of the Internet and disease management. The author also discusses pharmacy benefit managers, as well as various utilization management strategies like benefit plan design and the use of formularies.
Aon Consulting, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, USA.
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D003363:Cost Control; D017047:Cost Sharing; D019468:Disease Management; D016527:Drug Costs / Q000639:trends; D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000191:economics*; D017723:Drug Utilization Review; D016568:Drugs, Generic; D005569:Formularies as Topic; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States
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