Health System-Owned Specialty Pharmacies Gain New Voice

Specialty pharmacies, which focus on delivering medications for more complex and chronic illnesses, are no longer the rarity they once were. In 2016, the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists reports, about 9% of health systems owned an integrated specialty pharmacy;

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Specialty Pharmacy on Strategies and Analysis for Managing High-Cost Specialty Products

A recent study of Anthem’s Cancer Care Quality Program (CCQP) treatment pathways found that an enhanced reimbursement to providers who adhere to on-pathway treatment regimens increased use of the drugs without changing the total care spending, supporting the payer’s efforts to move the needle on value-based care. That program has since led to the insurer’s launch of an oncology medical home this summer.

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HOSP Forms to Advocate for Integrated Specialty Pharmacies

HOSP Forms to Advocate for Integrated Specialty Pharmacies

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UMass, CommonSpirit among collection of health systems to form new specialty pharmacy alliance

Amid rising pressures from payers, PBMs, and drug companies, a group of health systems are teaming up to create their own trade association.

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Sokos named to HOSP board of directors

Louis Sokos, BS Pharm, MBA, WVU Medicine Allied Health Solutions Specialty Pharmacy director, has been named a founding board member of the Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance (HOSP).

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Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Unite to Advocate for Common Interests

Eight major health systems launched a new nonprofit coalition that will work to share best practices and advocate for their common interests.

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Health-System Specialty Pharmacies Unite to Advocate for Common Interests

Eight major health systems launched a new nonprofit coalition that will work to share best practices and advocate for their common interests.

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Health Systems Join Forces to Launch Specialty Pharmacy Alliance

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).

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Newly Formed Pharmacy Organization Will Advocate for Better Patient Care, Improve Work Flows

Tanya Menchi, executive director of the newly formed Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance (HOSP), discusses how HOSP will advocate for better patient care and improved patient outcomes that are associated with fully integrated specialty pharmacies.

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7 health systems form specialty pharmacy alliance

Seven health systems are uniting to form the Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance, or HOSP, to advocate for health system-owned specialty pharmacies.

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