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The AMCP Blog is your go-to resource to hear from managed care experts and their perspectives on trends and hot topics related to managed care pharmacy.
AMCP CEO Susan Cantrell takes a moment to reflect on what AMCP has accomplished over the past year.
Pharmacy student Cayla Langley gained a unique behind-the-scenes look at managed care during the AMCP Partnership Forum on Closing the Gap in Real-World Evidence Use: A Collaborative Approach for Health Care Transformation.
In today’s complex health care landscape, data-driven insights are key to better decision-making. AMCP’s 2024 Access, Affordability, and Outcomes (AAO) report highlights how managed care strategies improve patient care and reduce costs. From employer-covered insurance to the benefits of 90-day medication supplies, the report offers actionable data on affordability, adherence, and savings. Explore the full report to see how AMCP supports better, more affordable care.
On November 12, more than 50 managed care professionals and various health care stakeholders gathered in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia to examine these barriers to adoption for RWE in managed care. The multi-day meeting, our latest Partnership Forum event hosted by the AMCP Research Institute, consisted of a series of workshops that challenged participants to examine opportunities and challenges posed by RWE use and identify ways to address these barriers to adoption through refining and applying a set of RWE standards geared toward payer decision-makers that we have developed over the past year.
In a world where innovative therapies are entering the market at an unprecedented pace, stakeholders need quick access to reliable information to help ensure the health care system is working as it should. They need fresh perspectives and data to keep up with how tools and techniques are working to help maintain balance in the managed care ecosystem. Enter AMCP’s recently released 2024 Access, Affordability, and Outcomes (AAO) report, which serves as a useful guide on how managed care pharmacy tools drive impact for patients.
More than 2,500 managed care pharmacy professionals from health plans, PBMs, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and other managed care organizations convened in Las Vegas, NV from Oct. 14–17 for AMCP Nexus 2024, the industry’s premier fall meeting. Attendees connected with like-minded professionals, discussed the key trends impacting their work, and expanded their perspectives through leading-edge education sessions.
Welcome to the latest update from Professional Affairs! This fall has been packed with major developments—from the release of Maximum Fair Prices for Medicare drugs to continued government focus of pharmacy benefit managers and much more.
Welcome to the first Professional Affairs blog! We plan on sharing a periodic post to recap some of the major news, journal articles, reports, and other publications from around the web that have come out since our last post. As this is our first blog, we’ll try to adequately cover the whirlwind that was July and early August 2024.
When Erica Klinger, AMCP’s Vice President of Marketing, joined the association in 2023, she met individuals who were unaware they were called “managed care pharmacists.” Now, as she tells AMCP’s Listen Up host Fred Goldstein at AMCP’s Annual Meeting in New Orleans, she is putting the community of managed care professionals in the spotlight.
AMCP recently hosted its third iteration of the IRA workshop series, bringing together health plans, pharmaceutical manufacturers, PBMs, research institutes, and patient advocacy organizations.
AMCP's Steve Kheloussi updates members of the MCP community on the newest resources for the managed care pharmacy toolbox.
With Vice President Kamala Harris likely to receive the Democratic nomination, we outline the health policy positions she has supported as a Senator, Vice President, and in her 2020 presidential campaign.
