(EDU-R2) Podium Session – Award-winning Research Supporting the Managed Care Pharmacy Research Agenda

AMCP and the AMCP Foundation jointly developed a Managed Care Pharmacy Research Agenda to inspire research in high priority areas with a significant potential to improve health care quality – for all. The agenda identified for research pillars: (1) real-world evidence to inform managed care pharmacy decision-making, (2) value-based models in managed care pharmacy to address total cost of care, (3) impact of benefit design or utilization management strategies on patient outcomes, and (4) impact of direct patient care services provided by managed care pharmacy on patient outcomes.

In this podium session, authors of the top-rated abstracts aligned to each of these research pillars will present and discuss their findings.

The platinum abstract award presentations are:
• Prescriber Uptake of Pediatric Behavioral Health Medication Recommendations
• Can Social Determinants of Health Be Derived from Population Data?
• Consequences of Formulary-Related Restrictions on Cariprazine
• Medication Waste: What can we do?

At the end of this presentation, participants will be able to:

• Describe the results of a prescriber outreach program on the use of behavioral health medications in a pediatric Medicaid population.
• Explain how publicly available data sets can be leveraged to create measures of social determinants of health specific to the health care access and economic stability domains, which can be used with pharmacy claims data to predict medication adherence.
• Determine the impact of formulary-related restrictions on cariprazine on healthcare resource use among BP-I patients’.
• Evaluate the success of an intervention to reduce oral oncolytic waste in patients at an integrated health system specialty pharmacy.