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Christine Strahl, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, Discusses Channels and Methods for Specialty Pharmacy Distribution
Christine Strahl, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, specialty pharmacy program manager, HealthPartners, says there are several new distribution channels in specialty pharmacy.
Christine Strahl, PharmD, MBA, BCPS, specialty pharmacy program manager, HealthPartners, says there are several new distribution channels in specialty pharmacy.
“Many payers are engaging hospital outpatient pharmacies or pharmacies associated with academic institutions to work together to distribute and manage specialty pharmacy therapy because oftentimes, pharmacists in these pharmacies have relationships with the providers and clinicians that are affiliated with the academic institutions,” she says. “Through those relationships we, as payers, really feel that they can help manage our patients, ensure that continuity of care, and help us understand what kind of outcomes we are receiving form the therapies.”
Dr Strahl also discusses the ways in which a variety of pharmacies within a network can distribute specialty pharmacy medications to patients.
Managed Care Reflections: A Q&A With A. Mark Fendrick, MD, and Michael E. Chernew, PhD
December 2nd 2025To mark the 30th anniversary of The American Journal of Managed Care (AJMC), each issue in 2025 includes a special feature: reflections from a thought leader on what has changed—and what has not—over the past 3 decades and what’s next for managed care. The December issue features a conversation with AJMC Co–Editors in Chief A. Mark Fendrick, MD, director of the Center for Value-Based Insurance Design and a professor at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; and Michael E. Chernew, PhD, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy and the director of the Healthcare Markets and Regulation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.
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