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Article: Mail order pharmacies start slowly, but they're picking up steam
- Article from:
- Managed Healthcare Executive
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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CopyrightCopyright Advanstar Communications, Inc. Feb 2004. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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PHARMACY BEST PRACTICES
Cost-sharing and benefit design are concerns, but more helpful pharmacists are an added plus, especially for the chronically ill
WITH MORE and more attention being paid to disease management, mail order pharmacy distribution is filling a niche-providing affordable and accessible drugs to patients on chronic-illness and maintenance medications.
According to the "Drug Cost Management Report" published by Atlantic Information Services, Inc. (AIS), pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) are making significant investments in their mail order capabilities and promoting the service to their many clients.
AIS attributes the efforts to: 1) mail order's profit margins, which are ...