MedCity News March 18, 2025
Several years ago, Highmark began questioning its exclusive relationships with specialty pharmacies and started working with Free Market Health, which matches patients to the pharmacy that best fits their needs.
Editor’s note: This story is based on discussions at Abarca Forward, a conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico, hosted by Abarca Health, a pharmacy benefit manager. MedCity News was invited to attend the event. Accommodations for the team were covered by Abarca. However, company officials had no input in editorial coverage.
Several years ago, Sarah Marche, senior vice president of pharmacy services at Highmark, began to question the “legacy way” health plans were managing specialty drugs, which was through exclusive relationships with specialty pharmacies. The idea was that the...