Research Papers on Pharmacy Benefit Managers

Disclosure Statement To Contact: labrams@nu-retail.com Tel: 831-254-7325 Lawrence W. Abrams, Ph.D. PO Box 1285 Watsonville, CA. 95077		A List of Research Reports On Pharmacy Benefit Managers PP F All papers downloadable: CONSUMER-DIRECTED PHARMACY BENEFITS Blowtorch Not Castlight: What it will Take to Bring Price Transparency to Pharmacy Benefits Management. (forthcoming) The Future of Consumer-Directed Pharmacy Benefits Show Me the Display: A Review of an ESI Study of Consumer-Directed Pharmacy Benefits PBM MERGERS The CVS-Caremark Merger and the Coming Preferred Provider War Pharmacy Benefit Managers as Conflicted Countervailing Powers The CVS-Caremark Merger: The Creation of an Elasticity of Demand for Retail Rx Pharmacy Benefit Manager Valuation and Profitability: Business Models Matter The Express Scripts - Wellpoint Deal: A "Double-Trouble Front" Medco As a Business Model Imperialist De-Capitation: Express Scripts' Unspoken Plan for its Wellpoint PBM Acquisition ) 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 PBM BUSINESS MODEL: Quantifying Medco's Business Model: An Update Tale of Two PBMs: Express Scripts vs. Medco Searching for Windfall Profits from a Change in the AWP Markup Ratio 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) Medco's Transition to a Transparent Business Model Exclusionary Practices in the Mail Order Pharmacy Market Quantifying Medco's Business Model Estimating the Rebate-Retention Rate of Pharmacy Benefit Managers Walgreen's Transparency Issue
N		PBMs AS BARGAINING AGENTS: Who is Best at Negotiating Pharmaceutical Rebates? Pharmacy Benefit Managers as Conflicted Countervailing Powers 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 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? Medicare Part D and Preferred Provider Pharmacy Networks ©Lawrence W. Abrams, 2012