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The New Pharmacy Benefit Evaluator Analyzes Health Plan Pharmacy Benefit Structure, Spending and the Plan-PBM Relationship to Inform Managed Care Sales Strategy Development

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthLeaders-InterStudy, the leading provider of managed care market intelligence, has enhanced its Pharmacy Benefit Evaluator, a Web-based product that analyzes health plan pharmacy benefit structure and spending and the health plan-to-pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) relationship to better inform managed care sales strategy development. Now available with enrollment data as of January 2009, the new Pharmacy Benefit Evaluator platform offers an easy-to-navigate interface as well as a flexible report structure that enables comparisons across PBMs and health plans to evaluate how organizations compare on co-pays, spending and benefit design.

Pharmacy Benefit Evaluator delivers comprehensive data on managed care pharmacy purchasing including:

• Health plan profiles that deliver overall medical and pharmacy lives and growth rates by national and regional health plan.
• How plans controls access to drugs, with insight into tiers, co-pays and formulary management.
• PBM profiles that detail key health plan affiliations with enrollment by benefit design type and state.

Pharmacy Benefit Evaluator is a vital tool for managed care sales teams as it provides clarity into the pharmacy benefit manager book of business.

"Our PBM research is conducted at the health plan level to provide the highest quality data available to differentiate between the lives where the PBM is making formulary decisions and where the PBM is providing administrative services," said Eric Matckie, vice president, strategy
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