Drug Topics April 30, 2024
The role of health care specialty pharmacies has expanded.
When it comes to reducing care costs and ensuring medication access, health system specialty pharmacies have a role to play, according to Bill McElnea, vice president of population health at Sheilds Health Solutions. McElnea sat down with Drug Topics at AXS24, the Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit, held April 28 to May 3 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Drug Topics: How do health system specialty pharmacies reduce care costs for patients?
Bill McElnea: Primarily through medication adherence. We really see quite the horizontal impact of good medication adherence across a range of different disease states, whether it’s annualized relapse rates in multiple sclerosis or sustained virologic response in hepatitis C. That really is...
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