The healthcare value chain : demystifying the role of GPOs and PBMs / Lawton Robert Burns.

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Main Author: Burns, Lawton R. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Table of 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.