CVS ' s Caremark Expands Its Diabetes Care Program with Analytics and Coaching

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) have been taking a beating in the news recently because attention is being directed to the fact that these companies are making high profits as the"middlemen" for prescription drugs (see:Reality check on PBMs and drug costs). For most patients, PBMs do not deliver any obvious service for them. I couldn't even find a web site for Caremark which is owned by CVS; you have to start at the CVS Health web page. This PBM narrative is changing because CVS knows how to impress healthcare consumers. All of this was derailed in a recent article (see:CVS Uses Analytics to Expand Transform Diabetes Care Program) with an excerpt of it below:More than two years since its launch, pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) CVS Caremark ’sTransform Diabetes Care program has helped PBM members better control their diabetes through a combination of highly personalized member support and coaching focused on improving medication adherence and better control of HbA1c. In fact, more than 50 percent of members with uncontrolled diabetes who enrolled in the program have moved to a controlled status and, on average, members have improved HbA1c by 1.2 percentage points.Building on this success, CVS Caremark is announcing an expansion of its Transform Diabetes Care program to focus on prevention and early identification of diabetes, as well as the launch of a new program, focused on hypertension, a common comorbidity of diabetes. Both use an advanced...
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