Insights

Insights provides context and perspective about key pharmacy trends and issues

Care Management
The Everyday Epidemic
In the United States, and around the world, diabetes is a top spend, and trend, driver. Managing the condition is a complex issue for payors and for anyone with the diagnosis. Treatment... More
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Take Back Our Health
Opioid abuse is a deadly epidemic. Measures such as proper disposal of medication and utilization management programs can help prevent and reduce drug abuse. More
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Measuring Up
Achieving and maintaining high-quality standards is about ongoing improvement and continuous learning. Accreditations like URAC require a commitment to meeting quality standards for a range... More
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The Balancing Act
Balancing the risk of opioid abuse with patient access takes careful consideration. Our new utilization management criteria offers payors strategies based on the recent CDC guideline on... More
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Care Management
One Step Closer
Removing tobacco from CVS Pharmacy stores helped significantly reduce cigarette purchases and presumably, use, according to a CVS Health Research Institute study More
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Cost vs. Care?
Understanding how rising health care costs affect consumer decisions about obtaining care is a key part of developing cost-effective solutions that help improve health outcomes. As an... More
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How to Make the Most of Adherence Interventions
Patients who are adherent to their medications have better health outcomes and their care costs less. Medication non-adherence is associated with poorer health outcomes and costly,... More
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Helping to Solve a $41B Problem
Hospital readmission among recently discharged patients is a long-standing and expensive issue. Research shows that an estimated one in seven patients are readmitted within 30 days costing... More
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How Medication Reconciliation Can Help Prevent Readmissions
Pharmacist-led medication reconciliation programs can help reduce readmissions and address a $41 billion problem. More
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Whose Care will Cause Payor Costs to Rise Next Year?
Knowing which members are likely to need high-cost care early can help plans better target interventions for greater effectiveness. But knowing whose costs are likely to rise isn’t easy. More
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