At the heart of the pharmacy benefit management business is a list, or formulary, of preferred drugs.
Kaiser Permanente, the California HMO with its own hospitals and docs, kept Nexium off its formulary of approved drugs.
Moreover, cisapride was de-listed in February 1999 from the hospital formulary of the retrospective DUR hospital.
We counted the number of unique British National Formulary (BNF) codes appearing in the individual's prescription drug data.
The melodramatic formularies of Hawthorne?
Medication cost estimates were obtained from the national formularies of each study country with the exception of Italy [31, 47 49].
Realize these have higher deductibles and visit co-pays, and more limited prescription allowances and formularies of covered drugs.
Drug manufacturers would offer ex ante discounts in exchange for better formulary positioning of their products relative to competitors.
Having said this, the first consideration for formulary inclusion of new medicines should always be their comparative efficacy and safety versus current formulary drugs.
The change in the formulary status of risperidone was associated with an increase in prescribing.
