Managed Care Pharmacy Issues

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.

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.

View an executive summary of the key findings from the AMCP 2024 Access, Affordability and Outcomes: The Value of Managed Care Pharmacy report.

AMCP supports the recognition of pharmacists as providers. When pharmacists are recognized as provider members of the health care team, patient outcomes improve, and patients report higher rates of satisfaction while overall health care costs are reduced. Recognized provider status would allow pharmacists to be reimbursed for providing health care services to patients. In a survey conducted in 2023 commissioned by Wolters Kluwer Health, 58% of Americans agreed that they are more likely to seek non-emergency medical care from a pharmacist.

View the 2024 AAO Report to learn how managed care pharmacy professionals facilitate appropriate access to prescription treatments and promote affordability to help improve outcomes for patients across America’s health care system.

In its second year, AMCP's annual Access, Affordability, and Outcomes: The Value of Managed Care Pharmacy 2024 report looks at the fundamental concepts of managed care pharmacy and provides insight and clarity into how today's changing health care climate can be navigated to improve patient care and outcomes.

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.

Download the AMCP Engagement Framework at AMCP.org for Payers and Patient Organizations to find various resources, tools, examples, and instructions to guide payers and patient organizations in opening lines of communication to assist with incorporating the patient’s voice in decision-making processes.