Specialty Management
Putting the brakes on specialty spend.
By 2025, spend on specialty pharmaceuticals will total approximately $373B.
2023-2025 anticipated robust pipeline
| 606 new drugs |
211 supplemental specialty indications drugs |
34 gene therapy products |
30 biosimilar approvals and 41 launches |
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More specialty treatments are being developed and coming to market for conditions previously treated with traditional therapies, those that had no treatments available, and expanding options to treat various conditions such as autoimmune conditions, and cancer.
Specialty is the biggest cost management challenge for payors today
| ~50% of overall pharmacy cost driven by 2.5% of members using specialty medication |
11% of cost is incurred when therapy begins |
89% of cost is driven by members after the first fill |
| ~50% of overall pharmacy cost driven by 2.5% of members using specialty medication |
| 11% of cost is incurred when therapy begins |
| 89% of cost is driven by members after the first fill |
An integrated and unique management approach is critical to help ensure lowest net cost and clinically appropriate utilization. These conditions are also complex, making patient support and clinical engagement an important component of improving outcomes and managing spend by making sure the right therapies are being used at the right time for the right member.
Specialty cost management
The rapid growth of specialty spend requires an active and innovative approach. This includes increasing market competition to deliver lowest net cost and drive appropriate utilization with our industry-leading management criteria based on robust clinical guidelines.
There are a wide range of specialty management solutions available, and new ones coming to market, with the promise to help employers mitigate rising specialty pharmacy costs and control new utilization. Few however provide the clarity that proves the promised savings through claims data and actual results that can be compared for evaluation.
A small percentage of members utilizing specialty medications represent a disproportionate and growing share of pharmacy spend. So, it is vital that any management approach address costs from the beginning – when members are first prescribed a specialty therapy – and every step of the way over the duration of therapy.
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We bring our integrated resources, including our reach, experience and expertise to help payors manage this complex, expensive area with a comprehensive approach that contains cost at every step of the process. Clear, transparent reports including prospective modeling and retrospective data analysis enables payors to clearly see how our strategies deliver savings for their plan. |
Our integrated strategies help ensure that:
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We bring our integrated resources, including our reach, experience and expertise to help payors manage this complex, expensive area with a comprehensive approach that contains cost at every step of the process. Detailed, transparent reports including prospective modeling and retrospective data analysis enables payors to clearly see how our strategies deliver savings for their plan.
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Our integrated strategies help ensure that:
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These strategies complement each other and help us deliver the most savings on specialty spend.
Medical benefit solutions
Drug spend under the medical benefit comprises nearly half of specialty spend for payors. Our integrated model applies the precision of pharmacy benefit management to complex and high-cost spend under medical, delivering more transparency and positively impacting clinical and financial outcomes. The automated cross-benefit platform, Novologix, enables a variety of strategies at the point of prescribing, featuring integrated prior authorization and medical claims management, site-of-care optimization and medical preferred drug strategies targeting high-cost drug classes, including oncology.
Patient care
Our broad clinical approach supports the complex needs of specialty patients. Specially trained pharmacy teams provide therapy-specific expertise and support to improve engagement and outcomes. AccordantCare nurses have extensive experience with rare conditions and can provide condition-level support to manage the whole patient while ensuring costs are optimized. And Coram infusion services teams deliver specialty infusion, nutrition therapies and support services for better clinical outcomes and lower overall health care costs. In addition, our advanced analytics and digital infrastructure enables us to better engage plan members throughout the duration of therapy to drive adherence that leads to better outcomes and cost control.
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Data source, unless noted otherwise, CVS Health Enterprise Analytics, 2021.
All data sharing complies with applicable law, our information firewall and any applicable contractual limitations.
Actual results may vary depending on benefit plan design, member demographics, programs implemented by the plan and other factors. Client-specific modeling available upon request.
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