{"title":"Pharmacy and consumer-directed accounts.","authors":"Travis Klavohn, Robert Kalman","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Employers must make informed design andimplementation choices in order for consumer-directed accounts to optimize the performance of pharmacy benefit strategies. Strategies must contemplate the prevalence of consumer-directed accounts, emerging technologies that support them and the potential impact on employee choices. Employers that align these factors may deliver pharmacy benefits at a lower cost and have an advantage over competitors. In pursuing this end, employers also may play a significant role in making health care affordable to as many Americans as possible.</p>","PeriodicalId":79563,"journal":{"name":"Benefits quarterly","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2014-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Benefits quarterly","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Employers must make informed design andimplementation choices in order for consumer-directed accounts to optimize the performance of pharmacy benefit strategies. Strategies must contemplate the prevalence of consumer-directed accounts, emerging technologies that support them and the potential impact on employee choices. Employers that align these factors may deliver pharmacy benefits at a lower cost and have an advantage over competitors. In pursuing this end, employers also may play a significant role in making health care affordable to as many Americans as possible.