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Article: New incentives reward pharmacies managing drug spending effectively

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Pharmacies are tracked and evaluated quarterly, giving them the opportunity to improve performance and earn higher incentives throughout the year.

Amid the array of Medicare Part D prescription plans, only one operates in partnership with pharmacists - Community CCRx, which, in addition to a generic dispensing rate incentive program, now offers pharmacies a new category designed to boost savings by increasing the percentage of maintenance supply fills.

Currently, Communi- ty CCRx is working with pharmacies in three ways, according to JoIm Wardle, president, Medicare Part D Division, Universal American: "To improve generic dispensing rates, reimburse phar- macies for therapy management at ...

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