formulary

Formularies are cost controls built into most commercial managed care plans - including the roughly 300,000 Oregon Health Plan enrollees who received their care through such plans.

In addition, insurers have been using more traditional ways to cut costs for brand-name drugs through formularies and tiered copayment structures, Fitzgibbon said.

* Administration had to develop skin and wound care product formularies.

The company says New Jersey and Massachusetts have also recently included SangCya organ solution to their state formularies.

This higher cost sharing and movement of generics to higher tiers did not correspond with an increase in the underlying price of generic drugs over that same time period, according to an analysis by Avalere experts of the average volume-weighted price of generics that were included on plan formularies in both 2011 and 2015.

Although formularies under Medicare Part D plans vary widely, nearly all plans cover at least one brand-name drug in many commonly prescribed treatment classes, according to data from a study in California.

The fact sheet lists son]e of the issues that will affect peoples' choices of a Part D drug plan for persons with HIV who have Medicare: "Formularies (the list of drugs offered) will vary by plan.

Pharmacopeia has established 146 unique therapeutic categories and pharmacologic classes to guide the establishment of formularies under the new Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit.

Pharmacopeia (USP) to develop model guidelines that pharmaceutical benefit managers and prescription drug plans could use as a frame-work to design their own Part D formularies.

Cost-cutting formularies such as Oregon's have no place in the industry's long-term marketing strategies.