Drug Topics April 30, 2024
From medication adherence to patient counseling, clinical pharmacists at health system specialty pharmacies can play a role in reducing health care costs.
When it comes to reducing care costs, health system specialty pharmacies have a role to play, according to Bill McElnea, vice president of population health at Shields Health Solutions.
“We really see a horizontal impact of good medication adherence across a range of different disease states,” from annualized relapse rate in multiple sclerosis or sustained virologic response in hepatitis C. “That really is the starting point for a whole lot.”
For multiple sclerosis—a disease with which nearly 1 million Americans are living—the annual economic burden is upwards of $85 billion: $1.1 billion of those costs are non-medical and...
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