title: Pharmacy benefits: new concepts in plan design.
abstract: This issue brief examines changes to prescription drug benefit coverage in large employer plans and implications for a Medicare prescription drug benefit. The brief discusses reasons behind employer benefit plan redesign and recent coverage trends, as well as potential paths to modernize benefits. Information is based on a literature review and conversations and interviews with employers, benefit consultants, and pharmacy benefit management executives.
authors.forename: Veronica V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Goff
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D003363:Cost Control / Q000191:economics; D017047:Cost Sharing / Q000191:economics; D016527:Drug Costs; D016568:Drugs, Generic / Q000191:economics; D005544:Forecasting; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000191:economics / Q000639:trends; D008389:Marketing of Health Services; D006278:Medicare / Q000458:organization & administration; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D016568:Drugs, Generic