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All papers downloadable:
THE PBM BUSINESS MODEL:
Medco As a Business Model
Imperialist (July, 2008) New
Many a Slip Twix Cup and
the Lip: A 10-K Search for Windfall Profits in the First Databank-McKesson
Case (forthcoming) New
Quantifying Medco's Business Model: A
FY2007 Update (forthcoming)
Tale
of Two PBMs: Express Scripts vs. Medco
Medco's Transition to
a Transparent Business Model
Quantifying Medco's Business Model
Contrary to
What Wall Street and the FTC Say, The PBM Business Model is Misaligned
'Sins
of Omission': A Review of the FTC Study of PBM Conflict of Interest
Exclusionary Practices in the
Mail Order Pharmacy Market
Estimating the Rebate-Retention Rate
of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (April 2003)
The Effect of Corporate Structure on Formulary Design: The Case of Large
Insurance Companies ISPOR 10th Annual Meeting, May 16, 2005 Washington,
D.C.
THE CHAIN DRUGSTORE BUSINESS MODEL:
The
CVS-Caremark Merger and the Coming Preferred Provider War (December 2006)
Pharmacy Benefit
Managers as Conflicted Countervailing Powers (January 2007)
N
The CVS-Caremark
Merger: The Creation of an Elasticity of Demand for Retail Rx (November
2006)
Walgreens Transparency Issue
(November 2003)
PBMs AS BARGAINING AGENTS:
Who is Best at Negotiating
Pharmaceutical Rebates? (December 2005)
Pharmacy Benefit
Managers as Conflicted Countervailing Powers (January 2007)
PBMs as
Bargaining Agents -- Paper presented at the 80th Annual Western Economic
Association Meeting,
July 6, 2005 San Francisco
PBMs as
Bargaining Agents -- PowerPoint
presented at the 80th Annual Western Economic Association Meeting, July 6,
2005 San Francisco
CONSUMER-DIRECTED PHARMACY BENEFITS
The
Future of Consumer-Directed Pharmacy Benefits (August 2007)
Show Me the Display: A
Review of an ESI Study of Consumer-Directed Pharmacy Benefits (July 2007)
LEGAL:
Exclusionary Practices in the
Mail Order Pharmacy Market
The Role of Pharmacy Benefit Managers in
Formulary Design: Service Providers or Fiduciaries?
Available at
Journal of
Managed Care Pharmacy Vol. 10 No. 4 July/August 2004 pp 359-60
Practical Issues
With PBM Full Disclosure Laws Update
Magazine 2004, Issue 4, 2004. available with permission from
FDLI
The
Formulary Game
MEDICARE PART D
Should
Medicare Finance E-Prescribing? (July 2007)
Medicare Part D and
Preferred Provider Pharmacy Networks (April 2005)
©Lawrence W.
Abrams, 2008
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