Pharmacy benefit managers: evaluating clinical utility in the real world.
Over the years, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have conducted and published peer-reviewed research covering a broad spectrum of activities ranging from studying the impact of alternative-benefit designs on outcomes to identifying the epidemiology of treated disease to understanding the impact of medication use on overall health-care costs. It is the unique “wired” interactive role in the health-care system that enables PBMs to play an emerging role in evaluating the clinical utility of biomarkers.
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Medco Health Solutions, Inc., Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, USA. Robert_epstein@medco.com
D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services / Q000592:standards*; D010605:Pharmacy Administration / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies