Schafer and Serluco Emphasize the Importance of Immunotherapies in Specialty Pharmacy News
In the latest edition of Specialty Pharmacy News, Precision for Value’s Jeremy Schafer and Janet Serluco discuss their recent payer survey reflecting strong concerns over immunotherapy combination costs and usage. The authors suggest that building payer engagement with the provider community is one key to managing combination treatments.
Precision’s Font at Asembia Summit: The Real Payers Are Employers
At the Asembia Specialty Pharmacy Summit 2017, Precision for Value’s Jorge Font spoke about his presentation with Marie Rosenthal from Specialty Pharmacy Continuum on the significant impact big employers are having in revising the approaches to specialty pharmacy benefit administration and pricing. Font shared his perspective that the real payers are, in fact, employers.
Jeremy Schafer Discusses New HCV Survey in Managed Healthcare Executive Uncovering Unmet Needs of Payers
Precision for Value’s Jeremy Schafer talks with Managed Healthcare Executive about a recent Precision HCV survey, highlighting unmet needs cited by payers, and what can be done to encourage payers to ease coverage policies for the next wave of HCV drugs.
PHE’s ESGC Provides Critical Support to New Legislation, FDA Guidelines
Congratulations to Precision Health Economics, and in particular the Evidence Strategy, Generation, and Communication (ESGC) practice group, for their outstanding efforts in support of the development of new legislation and FDA guidelines allowing biopharmaceutical manufacturers to more proactively share clinical and economic information with population health decision-makers on emerging therapies.
Precision’s Blandford in STAT First Opinion: The time for expansion of value-based drug reimbursement is now
Precision for Value’s Larry Blandford offers a new commentary in STAT First Opinion, insisting that payers and the pharmaceutical industry come together to develop a value-based drug reimbursement system. He suggests taking a page from the playbook developed for electronic prescribing as the key to moving forward.