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Press Releases: Four leading health care experts are generally optimistic that the U.S. will successfully address one of the fiercest challenges facing the health care system: paying for often spectacular, but high-cost gene and other curative therapies.
Press Release: The perception of what is "valuable" in any particular therapy can vary widely between providers, patients and payers, according to panelists at the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation's 7th Annual Research Symposium.
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation is delighted to announce that eight student pharmacists from across the country recently completed summer internship programs organized by the Foundation and supported by Pfizer, Inc.
Press Release: More than 2,200 managed care professionals will convene Oct. 16-19 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas, to take on two of the hottest issues facing health care
Press Release: Lowering the out-of-pocket costs of blood glucose testing strips can improve diabetes patients’ persistence with home monitoring, according to an article in the August 2017 issue of the Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy (JMCP).
Conclusions reached in a recent New York Times article on outcomes-based contracting are premature, if not inaccurate, stated Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, adding, “It’s still the early innings for outcomes-based, or value-based, contracting for prescription drugs, and therefore, too soon to dismiss.”
Press Release: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) commends the House for its passage yesterday of H.R. 2430, the Food and Drug Administration Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017. H.R. 2430 reauthorizes FDA’s critical user fee programs.
Press Release: The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health held a hearing today on the “Pharmaceutical Information Exchange (PIE) Act of 2017” (H.R. 2026).
Press Release: Diverse stakeholders representing managed care pharmacy, provider groups, integrated delivery systems and the biopharmaceutical industry this week developed key strategies to enable the expansion of “value-based contracting.”
Press Release: AMCP CEO Susan A. Cantrell, RPh, CAE, comments on today's unanimous vote by the House Energy & Commerce (E&C) Committee to approve legislation reauthorizing the FDA’s user fee programs.
Press Release: To address escalating drug costs, health care payers increasingly are adopting benefit designs that aim to identify and pay for medications based on their value.
Press Release: Increased collaboration, improved decision-making support tools and greater use of value-based contracting are among the recommendations to address the accelerating pace of oncology products coming to market each year.