The winners among the Part D preferred pharmacy networks are willing to trade lower prescription profit margins for larger market share. CVS pharmacies are preferred in plans that enrolled 8.5 million people in 2018, compared with the fewer than 300,000 people enrolled in CVS retail pharmacies in 2017.
These eight questions show that the use of an LBM or a PAP should be just one of the potential results of your laboratory benefit management program, not the program itself. You shouldn’t have to pay for services you already provide yourselves or add a middleman that’s not necessary.
In Slow Medicine, Victoria Sweet, MD, pulls the reader into a different reality, one that harkens back to an earlier era of one-on-one medicine, when physicians and patients commonly shared a bond of trust and familiarity. That era has faded with the emergence of systems of care and performance targets.
Kentucky was the first state to take advantage of the Trump administration’s invitation for states to set work requirements for Medicaid, but others are sure to follow.
