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Mashup Score: 0Priority Health’s Christina Barrington Sworn in as New President of National Pharmacy Board | AMCP.org - 26 day(s) ago
Christina Barrington, PharmD, vice president and chief pharmacy officer at Priority Health, a nationally recognized nonprofit health plan serving more than 1.3 million members, has been sworn in as president of the Board of Directors for the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) for 2024-2025.
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Mashup Score: 4Satellite Symposia | AMCP Annual Meeting - 29 day(s) ago
Satellite symposia are non-commercial, grant- funded learning activities that are planned and conducted by the corporate community in conjunction with AMCP 2024. Satellite symposia offer continuing pharmacy education (CPE) credit, and some offer continuing medical education (CME) credit and continuing nursing education (CNE) credit. Registration, content, and continuing education are the sole responsibility of the provider. There is no fee for pre-registering for these educational activities, as registrat
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Mashup Score: 1New AMCP Research Institute Expands Managed Care Pharmacy Research Opportunities | AMCP.org - 29 day(s) ago
The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) today launched the AMCP Research Institute (ARI), a research-based resource that will conduct and facilitate projects important to the mission of managed care pharmacy. Incorporating AMCP’s existing Biologics & Biosimilars Collective Intelligence Consortium (BBCIC), the ARI will expand the scope of research opportunities for AMCP, thereby helping to advance the larger goal of improving public health in the United States.
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Health economic modeling platform to support clinical and economic value information exchange between manufacturers and payers.
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Mashup Score: 1Themed issue on drug pricing policy and the Inflation Reduction Act - 1 month(s) ago
This themed issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP) features articles exploring drug pricing policy, with a special focus on implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act drug pricing provisions. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 authorizes the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to negotiate the prices of top-selling Medicare Part B and D drugs with pharmaceutical manufacturers. How CMS implements this program has important implications for managed care pharmacy.
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Mashup Score: 0AMCP Format for Formulary Submissions 5.0 - 1 month(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 4A primer on formulary structures and strategies - 1 month(s) ago
Formularies are a tool for managing costs, optimizing patient access, and improving overall health outcomes. The general goal of formularies is to provide access to appropriate therapy while promoting effective resource utilization, which allows the managed care pharmacy organization to operate sustainably. Traditional formulary strategies have included open and closed formularies as well as tiered formularies. However, other formulary structures have emerged in support of the focus on product value. The formulary development process is primarily driven by the pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee and value committee within an organization. Key considerations such as member population, regional differences, regulatory/compliance implications, and benefit design strategies may influence payers to create a customized formulary to provide additional value to their members while managing costs. With the rise of high-cost and specialty products, formularies continue to serve as an impor
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Mashup Score: 3We are MCPs - 2 month(s) ago
AMCP provides year-round networking opportunities, linking you with colleagues through virtual, local, and national events. Together we are leading the charge to help patients get the medications they need at a cost they can afford.
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Mashup Score: 0A summit on amplifying voices of patients, caregivers, and people with disabilities in Inflation Reduction Act drug price negotiations - 2 month(s) ago
On September 18, 2023, Cancer Support Community convened patient and caregiver advocates, health care providers, policy experts, and health care innovators and thought leaders for a roundtable discussion on the need to ensure that patients, people with disabilities, and caregivers have a voice in defining “clinical benefit” for the purpose of Medicare Part D drug price negotiations and future health care policies that impact patients. The meeting featured presentations from Lara Strawbridge, Deputy Director for Policy at the Medicare Drug Rebate and Negotiations Group in the Center for Medicare, regulatory expert, Dr Monique Nolan, Counsel at Arnold and Porter, LLP, and 3 panel discussions: IRA Implementation—What Matters to Patients, a discussion of policies expected to impact patients and caregivers who are likely to rely heavily on high-cost drugs or biologics to treat cancer or other chronic illnesses, as well as the future development of novel therapies; The Science of Measuring P
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Mashup Score: 2Health Equity Action Brief: Geographic Inequality | AMCP.org - 2 month(s) ago
The Health Equity Action Brief on Geographic Inequality highlights a concerning trend of widening geographic inequality over the past four decades and what managed care can do to address these potential policy biases.
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[Press Release] On April 17, AMCP swore in Christina Barrington, PharmD, as AMCP Board President. The Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer at @PriorityHealth received the honor during #AMCP2024. Learn more: https://t.co/Q3LQNCjHVx #managedcare #pharmacy