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Many patients face significant challenges in accessing their specialty medications, which highlights the importance of pharmacy-deployed patient navigation programs designed to help resolve nonclinical, system-related barriers to care.

Vanderbilt Specialty Pharmacy and Takeda Oncology are reaching across silos and entering an innovative partnership to improve patient care across the entire medication journey.

As pharmacists provide more health care services, opportunities arise for more sophisticated patient engagement and billing solutions that drive patient satisfaction and increased loyalty.

The committee will help the FDA address issues related to digital health technologies, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cyber security, and patient-generated health data.

Although education and training have historically been considered the primary factors influencing pay, the survey results challenge this notion.

Within this care model, pharmacists can serve an important role in caring for patients, whether it is identifying adverse medication interactions or pushing patients to seek additional support.

Better access to prescription drugs improves patients’ experience, adherence, and health.

The National Community Pharmacists Association said the action was sent into motion by wrongful penalties for Medicare Part D prescriptions, called pharmacy direct and indirect remuneration fees.

Current federal statutes exclude anti-obesity medications for coverage when used for anorexia, weight loss, or weight gain.

Despite this decision, the trend of various states attempting to regulate pharmacy benefit managers is expected to continue

Pearl Health will offer technology and insight solutions while Walgreens provides clinical services.

Incorporate Program Requirements Into Systems and Workflows.

Manufacturers must find the right balance in drug pricing, so that medications are appealing to both public and private insurers while still remaining profitable throughout their lifecycle.

Frustrations with the current means of achieving price discrimination have reached a boiling point, but the future remains uncertain.

The opioid settlement framework could have a significant impact on the future of cannabis distribution and its role in health care.

Patients with cancer and survivors of cancer that had engaged in administrative tasks to effectively estimate costs or pay for care was associated with an 18% increase in cost-related treatment delays or treatment nonadherence.

Advanced technology can automate many pharmacovigilance tasks to build workflow efficiencies, reduce manual intervention, and free up team members for more strategic activities.

With the help of new and complex algorithms and self-learning models, we are currently privy to what we may look back on as the golden era of AI.

The results differ from previous studies and the predictions of the researchers that the Child Tax Credit would reduce the prevalence of low birth weight among pregnant women across the country.

Pharmacies brace for a double wave of DIR fees while paddling against profit struggles. Enter Pharmacy AI: a transformative vehicle to navigate stormy waters, enhance efficiency, and prioritize patient care.

Stakeholders need to convene honest, actionable discussions about the challenges and the safeguards needed to address appropriate use of artificial intelligence in health care.

Session at NACDS Total Store Expo discusses minor changes that retail companies can make to mesh artificial intelligence into their work to increase sales, improve margins, and lower costs.

New standards from the National Council for Prescription Drug Programs could drive changes that improve patient safety by optimizing drug therapy to reduce the risk of harm and improve health and well-being before a medication is dispensed.

There was no association between the amount of evidence behind a product and the time until Medicare coverage, suggesting issues within the coverage determination process itself.

Improved prescription information could help consumers make better health care decisions and result in cost savings.

In terms of science and technology, the health care community has everything needed to clinically implement pharmacogenomics testing.

Pharmacists are critically important in care delivery in their ability to influence patient success, patient-reported outcomes, and quality of life while reducing the burden on physicians and their clinical support teams.

Thousands more people filled their insulin prescriptions following the introduction of the cap in January 2023, especially compared to those who were not enrolled in Medicare, a new study finds.

The updated version of the Oncology Care Model (OCM) incentivizes value-based care over volume, but some wonder if it is enough.

Legislation would place emphasis back on patient health rather than on cumbersome, time-consuming paperwork.