Today, millions of Americans are taking three or more medications, while many seniors take five or more medications per day. Plan sponsors like you are faced with the challenge of balancing ever-escalating drug costs with providing effective pharmaceutical treatments. BioScrip® is dedicated to helping lower drug costs through our comprehensive pharmacy services, while striving to improve patient medication usage for better outcomes. Here are some of our programs:
Expert Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) Services A well-designed PBM program can deliver maximum benefits while minimizing costs. At BioScrip, we work with you to design, implement, and launch a PBM program that can:
- Provide access to pharmaceutical care
- Create member choice
- Deliver information to members, prescribers, and sponsors to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the pharmacy benefit
Our pharmacy industry experience and expert customization capability allows us to create a benefit program specially designed for you and your members. More than 1 million members rely on our network of 60,000 pharmacy locations each day to provide local access to prescription drugs. Our mail-order service provides fast and accurate drug distribution for members and cost reduction for plan sponsors. We provide cost containment savings with the following services:
- Formulary management & rebate administration
- Generic substitution
- Prospective & respective Drug Utilization Review (DUR)
- Prior authorization
- Copay customization, deductible, and benefits maximums
- Network design and management
- Mail Services from our wholly-owned, state-of-the-art mail facility
- Claims processing and adjudication
- Customizable data reporting
Learn more about BioScrip PBM. Or for a consultation and analysis, contact: clinicalservices@bioscrip.com For customer service, please call 800-677-4323.
For customer service, please call: 800-677-4323
Experienced Specialty Mail Services Specialty medications are the fastest growing segment of pharmaceutical costs. While only a small percentage of patients will have a chronic condition, a large percentage of drug spending is due to this small group. BioScrip offers nearly 30 years of experience working with individuals with chronic health conditions. Our expertise allows us to take a unique look at your drug utilization and spending to create a custom specialty drug program aimed at lowering costs. Whether you require a comprehensive, private-label, or disease-state carve-out program, we can design one that:
- Lowers prescription costs
- Reduces paperwork
- Provides more accurate benefit coordination
- Ensures better pharmaceutical participant outcomes
Our state-of-the-art pharmaceutical management facility allows us to deliver specialty medications to your members with chronic health conditions. We carry specialty drugs that aren't readily available at most pharmacies. We also offer patient programs designed to encourage proper medication usage and improve adherence and compliance. Additional patient services include:
- Free medication delivery
- Benefits coordination
- Medication counseling
- Side effect management
- Therapy Management
- Refill reminders
Click here to learn more about BioScrip specialty mail services. Or for a consultation and analysis, contact: clinicalservices@bioscrip.com For customer service, please call: 800-677-4323.
Clinical Services With Optimal Care BioScrip offers clinical services focused on providing optimal care, as well as providing effective strategies for cost containment to plan providers. Rather then offering a one-size-fits-all approach, we determine which services are appropriate to support patients based on an initial comprehensive risk assessment. Those services may range from Dispensing Services to Drug Therapy Management to Disease Management Services. This enables payors to provide their members the appropriate level of support in order to maximize treatment results and balance economic benefits. For patients, BioScrip's Drug Therapy Management can include:
- Comprehensive formulary management
- Pharmaceutical care
- Prospective and retrospective Drug Utilization Review (DUR)
- Prior authorization
- Quantity limits
- Waste limitations
- Medical necessity
- Generic substitution
- Follow-up monitoring with therapy adjustment or discontinuation
- Adherence monitoring with intervention
For higher risk patients, Disease Management Services are also available:
- Call-based nurse support
- Patient self-management & empowerment counseling
- Outcomes monitoring
- Reporting of outcomes to payor & prescriber
Contact us today for more information at payorclients@bioscrip.com or for a consultation or analysis at: clinicalservices@bioscrip.com For customer service, please call 800-677-4323.
National Leader of Infusion Therapy Services BioScrip offers nearly 30 years of infusion therapy expertise in all 50 states, including 60 specialty pharmacies, 33 community pharmacies and 33 nursing locations. BioScrip Infusion Services combines national experience and comprehensive leadership with the comfort and convenience of a local center for optimum patient care. We deliver and administer intravenous medications and fluids to a patient's home, physician's office or to one of our 18 ambulatory centers. From the moment we receive the infusion services request through therapy conclusion, BioScrip provides highly-skilled, compassionate care. Our outstanding qualifications and first-class capabilities include:
- ACHC accredited all BioScrip services
- National nursing coverage
- Clinical Respiratory Care Services
- Home Medical Equipment delivered and set up
- State-of-the-art IV compounding facilities
- Products in a wide range of concentrations and strengths
- Written protocols for the safe administration of infused drugs
- Physician-Based and Free-Standing Infusion
- Experienced registered nurses specializing in IV infusion
- The most up-to-date pharmaceuticals, technology and infusion techniques available
- Extensive experience bringing new pharmaceuticals to marketplace
- Expertise in clinical trial management and execution
- USP 797 Pharmaceutical Compounding Sterile Preparations compliant
- Class 100 Cleanrooms meets cleanliness standards for control of submicron particles, ensuring a clean compounding environment
Click here for more information on Infusion Therapy Services. Or for a consultation or analysis, contact us at: clinicalservices@bioscrip.com For customer service, please call 800-677-4323.
Expert Home Health Care Services BioScrip is leading provider of home health care that includes skilled, Medicare-certified home health services, nursing, physical therapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy, medical social work and home health aide services. Ranked among the 10 largest home health providers in the United States, we focus on clinical excellence and are committed to a philosophy of care and service to the local communities in which we serve. Some of the additional home health services we provide include:
- Licensed private duty care
- Clinical respiratory care
- Home medical equipment delivery and set-up
- Medicare hospice care
- Pain symptom management
- Wound treatment and management
- Education/implementation of home exercise programs
- Home safety programs
- Coordinating community resources
- Therapeutic intervention through counseling
- Establishing programs to address decreased cognitive status or emotional factors affecting patient's illness
- Assisting in negotiating fiscal systems
- Medication management
Click here for more information on Home Health Services. Or for a consultation or analysis, contact us at: clinicalservices@bioscrip.com For customer service, please call 800-677-4323.