As President of the Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance, I’m proud that HOSP submitted comments responding to HRSA’s latest notice related to the proposed 340B Rebate Model Pilot Program. While this notice is framed as a paperwork approval step, the practical impact is much bigger. HRSA is seeking approval for the data collections [...]
Interview with Jon Martin, US Commercial Lead, Biosimilars and Established Brands at Organon Organon may not be as familiar as other biologics companies: what are your organization’s mission and key businesses? Organon is an independent global health care company that has built a diverse portfolio of over 70 medicines and products in women’s health, [...]
Specialty Pharmacies in New York State Making a Difference by Establishing, Expanding, and Protecting a Vital Pillar of Patient-Centered Care.
The HOSP Alliance today announced that two new members have joined the Board of Directors. Karen McConnell, System Vice President of the Pharmacy Enterprise and Chief Pharmacy Officer at CommonSpirit Health, and Onisis Stefas, Vice President and Chief Pharmacy Officer, Northwell Health, join the six founding members on the board.
Gold bagging is an industry term that is rapidly becoming a new “gold standard” of healthcare drug delivery because of the consistently better patient outcomes it is driving in a health system owned specialty pharmacy setting. The term “bagging” in its various flavors of white bagging, clear bagging and brown bagging – and now gold bagging - denote different methodologies of getting the actual physical package of drugs to the care setting and for administration to the patient.
The Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance (HOSP) Board of Directors released today an Open Letter addressed to the nation's health systems and other network providers of specialty pharmacy patient care proposing three immediate actions the industry needs to take to improve patient care and outcomes. Read the Open Letter here.
Eight of the nation’s leading health systems and other network providers of specialty pharmacy patient care joined together today to form The Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance (HOSP). HOSP will focus on advocating for the interests of integrated specialty pharmacies and promoting best practices that enable them to deliver the best patient care and patient outcomes.
