In this video, Steve Marciniak, RPh, speaks of the challenges and value of specialty drugs.
Steve Marciniak, RPh, Pharmacy Director, Priority Health, states that formulary management, benefit design, distribution channels, and patient care are current best practices used for specialty drug benefit management. He points out the high cost of drugs is one of the prominent challenges in managing the specialty pharmacy 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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