The healthcare value chain demystifying the role of GPOs and PBMs /

This volume analyzes group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in order to better understand the significant roles that these entities play in the healthcare supply chain. It examines who they contract with, on what terms, and who they represent and answer to while c...

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Main Author: Burns, Lawton R. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 655 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Subjects:
Health services administration -- United States.
Business logistics -- United States.
Electronic commerce -- United States.
Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Part I Introduction
  • Caution: Entering Dark Territory
  • The Challenge of Complexity: Chains, Channels, Customers (and Value Too)
  • Part II Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs)
  • Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs): An Overview
  • The GPO Chronicle, Part I: 1910-2000 - The Players, Market Structure, and Market Conduct
  • The GPO Chronicle Part II: 200-2010 - New Judges of GPOs: The Press, the Senate, and the Courts
  • GPO Performance: A Review of the Literature
  • Summary: GPOs' Pro-competitive and Welfare-Generating Benefits
  • GPOs: Differentiated or Commoditized?
  • Part III: Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) - PBMs and the Ecosystem of Prescription Drug Benefit Contracting
  • The PBM Chronicle of the Twentieth Century
  • PBM Tailwinds in the New Millennium: Specialty Drugs, Specialty Pharmacies, and Insurance Expansion
  • PBM Headwinds in the New Millennium: Court Challenges, Merger Scrutiny, and Congressional Hearings
  • Looking Under the Hood: PBM Contracts
  • Part IV: Summary and Conclusion
  • Conclusion.

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