title: Pharmacy and consumer-directed accounts.
abstract: Employers must make informed design andimplementation choices in order for consumer-directed accounts to optimize the performance of pharmacy benefit strategies. Strategies must contemplate the prevalence of consumer-directed accounts, emerging technologies that support them and the potential impact on employee choices. Employers that align these factors may deliver pharmacy benefits at a lower cost and have an advantage over competitors. In pursuing this end, employers also may play a significant role in making health care affordable to as many Americans as possible.
authors.forename: Travis
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Klavohn
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kalman
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D007356:Insurance, Pharmaceutical Services; D014481:United States