Scott Long, CPBS, CHVP

If you’re managing a self-funded healthcare plan in 2021, chances are you know about specialty medications and how they can devastate a pharmacy benefit budget. Specialty drugs are becoming more common, so your organization needs to have a plan for …

Chances are if you manage a self-funded health plan, you know how important specialty meds are to your overall costs. The complex administration of these high-costs drugs can be intimidating. But as an HR administrator, you shouldn’t be as there’s …

Less is more, right? When it comes to pharmacy benefits, this is absolutely applicable. It’s called Lesser of Language, or language in your PBM contract that instructs PBMs must use the lowest price of a drug on the market when …

Apex wraps up its celebration of American Pharmacists Month with a discussion about the future of pharmacy. Apex Pharmacy Benefit Practice Leader chats with Project Ronin Clinical Oncology Content Specialist Kelley Carlstrom about how the future is already here.

What makes a specialty drug exactly that? And how much of the pharmacy benefit spend goes toward specialty drugs?

What are the chances you’ve put IT and pharmacy in the same sentence before? Probably not likely. However, Tony Dao, PharmD, explains to Erin Albert, PharmD, CPBS that IT can help the process of getting pharmacy drugs to patients more …

There’s so many logistics that need addressed for adult caregivers. Amy Torrez’s own personal experience showed her how things can be overlooked, especially if a loved one is receiving treatment far from home.

Cam Davis and Rob Kee come from different backgrounds, but both discovered through First Fridays they have a passion for telling stories in Fort Wayne.

On this episode of The Point Podcast: Fort Wayne, Apex Benefits Strategist Kassee Lamm chats with JA’s Stephen Hilker and Hayli Beck about JA’s goals and successes over the years.

What you’re looking for is referred to as “lessor of” logic or “lessor of” language. In layman’s terms, its language in your PBM contract that stipulates that if there is a lower available price, the PBM must use it as a …

Of course, you need to know where cost is coming from. But, equally important, you need to understand where cost is not coming from too so that you can reduce avoidable costs.

I’ve got a question, have you ever caught yourself forgetting what an acronym stands for? Seriously – It happened to me this past weekend. Acronyms are all around us.