AMCP's 2009 Educational Conference
PRO PHARMA attended AMCP's 2009 Educational Conference in San Antonio, TX October 7-9, 2009
The following topics will be presented:
- Key cornerstones in developing a successful multi-faceted prescriber intervention program focused on quality management.
- Detailed and specific physician and/or patient focused reports representing compelling information which influences prescriber practice patterns.
- Critical success factors for an effective Quality Management Program™.
Session Description:
Continuing increases in pharmacy benefit cost occur even while generic use increases as a percent of total medications dispensed. Movement of office injectables from the medical benefit to the pharmacy benefit has highlighted the run-away inflation for such medications. For six member companies of the Coal/Energy Coalition, traditional interventions were not curbing escalation in costs. Exasperated with a trend that significantly exceeded the national average every year, the Coalition companies came together in 2003 to try an innovative approach to improving quality of care and managing benefit costs.
Pro Pharma implemented a program which engages physicians in improving the clinical quality of pharmaceutical care for their patients, while lowering costs. The objective is to decrease the quality gap between actual prescribing experience and national standards of care for applicable diagnosis and move the mean toward lower trends.
Four-year results show improved quality leads to lower costs. In 2008 the Coalition drug trend was 1% compared to 10.7% nationally with 16% estimated for the coal/energy industry.
For more information please contact Carol Stern @ 818-701-5438
or carol.stern@propharmaconsultants.com
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