Fresh Evidence: How Health Systems Steer Prescriptions to Their Own Specialty Pharmacies
Drug Channels
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Hospitals and health systems are rapidly expanding their internal specialty pharmacies—and they’re using questionable tactics to boost revenues and profits. A new American Society of Hospital Pharmacists (ASHP) survey of health system pharmacies offers fresh insights into how these systems steer prescriptions to their internal specialty pharmacies: For most health systems' in-house specialty pharmacies, more than 90% of specialty prescriptions are written by system-employed physicians.
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