Managed Care Pharmacy: Principles and Practice

by Albert I. Wertheimer (Editor)

Position your company to keep pace in the changing environment of Managed Care!

Managed Care Principles and Practice analyzes trends in pharmacy benefit systems to provide physicians, pharmacists, payers, benefit consultants, and pharmaceutical companies with ways to preserve quality pharmaceutical care while reducing costs. Each chapter, written by an expert in the field, offers proven suggestions that will help you choose or develop a pharmacy benefit system that will maximize the goals of managed care organizations, pharmacists, and consumers.

Discussing the importance of evaluating the success and cost-effectiveness of pharmacy benefit policies, this book gives you examples for creating and organizing monthly reports that will reveal how money is being spent or saved and if consumers are satisfied.

Managed Care Pharmacy uses data and strategies that will help you understand and implement pharmacy benefits, enabling you

404 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999