Payers Continue to Employ Array of Specialty Drug Management Strategies

Rebates continue to be a huge part of the specialty pharmacy space, with 93% of respondents to a recent survey receiving them for drugs in the pharmacy benefit. Meanwhile, 44% of respondents said their firm received rebates for medical benefit drugs, representing an increase from 39% in the prior year’s survey. Those are just some of the findings in the Trends in Specialty Drug Benefits Report from Pharmaceutical Strategies Group (PSG), an EPIC company.

The 11th annual survey, which reflects 2023 information, was fielded from Sept. 18 through Oct. 13, 2023. The primary source of respondents was PSG’s proprietary database of drug benefit decision makers, and they included people from employers, health plans (or third-party administrators or insurance companies) or union/Taft-Hartley plans. There were 185 benefits leaders from plan sponsors with an estimated 86.6 million lives.

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Angela Maas

Angela Maas

Angela has an extensive background of editing, reporting and writing for trade and consumer publications. She has written Radar on Specialty Pharmacy since she joined AIS Health in 2005 and has broad knowledge of the various issues at play within the space. She also has written for Spotlight on Market Access since its 2017 launch. Before joining AIS Health, she was managing editor at Employee Benefit News and Employee Benefit News Canada and managing editor at Hem Aware (a hemophilia publication), Lupus Living and Momentum (a multiple sclerosis publication). She has a B.A. in English and an M.A. in British literature from Arizona State University.

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