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White Bagging Update 2024: Providers’ Pushback Preserves Buy-and-Bill (rerun)

Drug Channels

For 2024, payers report that specialty pharmaciesvia white and clear bagginghave displaced buy-and-bill for a meaningful share of commercial covered lives utilizing provider-administered oncology drugs. Payers adoption of white baggingand providers push backreflect the ongoing battle for oncology margin in U.S. drug channels. drug channels.

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How do you get pharmaceutical treatments where they’re needed most?

Fierce BioTech

Choosing the right specialty pharmacy partner is critical. Choosing the right specialty pharmacy partner is critical. Especially when you’re treating rare, chronic and complex conditions. You need a partner who delivers more than just logistics management, therapy fulfillment and generalized patient care.

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Smaller Pharmacies, Bigger Impact: Inside Manufacturers’ Specialty Networks in 2025

Drug Channels

Last week, we examined the growing concentration of specialty drug dispensing revenues among the largest pharmacies. See The Top 15 Specialty Pharmacies of 2024: How PBMs, Health Systems, and Independents Are Shaping the Market. Today, we dive deeper. Drawing from DCIs new 2025 Economic Report on U.S.

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Master the Hidden Economics of Pharmaceuticals—In Under an Hour—with DCI's New eLearning Modules

Drug Channels

In todays fast-moving pharmaceutical marketplace, insight is everything. Why Professionals Choose DCI eLearning These modules were built from the ground up for pharmaceutical professionalsfrom seasoned experts to newcomers looking to understand the industry's complex web of relationships. pharmaceutical distribution.

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Informa Connect's Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models West

Drug Channels

Informa Connect's Hub and Specialty Pharmacy Models West. September 14-15, 2022 Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina | San Diego, CA www.informaconnect.com/hub-specialty-pharmacy-west. Delivered as a Hybrid Event. Drug Channels readers will save 10% off the current registration rate when they use code 22DC10 *.

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White Bagging Update: PBMs’ Specialty Pharmacies Keep Gaining on Buy-and-Bill Oncology Channels

Drug Channels

specialty pharmacies—via white, brown, and clear bagging—continue to displace buy-and-bill distribution channels for provider-administered oncology drugs. The battle for the specialty patient pits hospitals against insurers—and their respective specialty pharmacies. Coming out of the pandemic (maybe?),

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Mapping the Vertical Integration of Insurers, PBMs, Specialty Pharmacies, and Providers: A 2022 Update

Drug Channels

pharmaceutical distribution, payment, and reimbursement system. The other is my mapping of the insurer/PBM/specialty pharmacy/provider organizations that now dominate U.S. But there are two slides that people seem to appreciate the most. One is my chart showing the key channel flows within the entire U.S. drug channels.