For patients with a complex health condition, their therapies can be life-saving. You may be facing an increase in the number of patients requiring specialty therapies in the future. Consider your members who delayed cancer screens over 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
Over this time there was a:
reduction in mammograms1
decrease in colonoscopies1
drop in pap smears1
The market is already experiencing the rebound of screenings and health visits, which means an influx of specialty patients to come. You care about your members – that’s why you shouldn’t have to compromise care.
5.4% average specialty trend in 2021 – that was 3% higher than traditional therapies.2
Less than 2% of the population uses specialty drugs, yet those prescriptions account for a staggering 51% of total pharmacy spending.3
It’s 75x more expensive to cover a single specialty patient’s drugs compared to just $492 for a non-specialty patient’s – a $38,000 average annual cost.2
If you haven’t taken aggressive action in the past, you need to take a look at all of your options now. Paving the way to an affordable specialty benefit starts with the ability for plans to implement proven and guaranteed specialty pharmacy controls without sacrificing member experience and outcomes.
Specialty Advanced Assurance is a collection of proven solutions curated to optimize the pharmacy benefit and drive maximum value and affordability. To deliver better specialty drug predictability and affordability, we will be offering financial assurance that comes in the form of a guarantee.*