In Search of a Better Specialty Pharmacy Experience for People with Chronic Illness

February 9, 2023

People living with chronic illness often have to jump through hoops to get the specialty medicines they need, with many expected to justify their prescriptions to payers and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) on a monthly basis. A new Med City News article covers how medically integrated dispensing (MID) can help patients and providers.

According to Tesh Khullar, “Patients get better care when their prescribing doctor also dispenses their medication. Doctors who dispense can adapt treatment regimens as needed and keep costs lower for their patients. For example, when a treatment plan requires a change in dosage, the doctor can make the change and dispense immediately, reducing the amount of prescribed drugs that go to waste. Finally, care teams can keep costs lower than when patients obtain medication outside their facilities (such as through a specialty pharmacy), due to a reduction in the number of middlemen who take a profit, as medications make their way to patients.”

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(Source: Med City News, February 7th, 2023)

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