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Dr. Patrick Gleason Speaks on Trends in Prescription Drug Spending
Patrick Gleason, PharmD, Director of Health Outcomes, Prime Therapeutics, says by 2017, 50% of all expenditures for drugs will be in the specialty drug space.
Patrick Gleason, PharmD, Director of Health Outcomes, Prime Therapeutics, says by 2017, 50% of all expenditures for drugs will be in the specialty drug space. “It suffices to say that it’s pharmaceutical manufacturer price increases that are driving or fueling the specialty drug trend with an increase in utilization, and we foresee this growing in the future,” Dr Gleason said. “What’s really interesting is to look at the expenditures of specialty drugs not just on the pharmacy benefit, but the medical benefit.”
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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