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payers striving to meet market demand for better overall healthcare
performance, Walgreens fills the critical need for quality healthcare
solutions that improve outcomes, access and engagement, all
contributing to lower total cost of care. Boost your health program
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Specialty
Pharmacy
Walgreens
is your specialty pharmacy advocate, offering pharmacy and
medical benefit cost-savings strategies, proactive patient
engagement and expert client support.
Our
specialty pharmacy services ensure appropriate clinical
management and are offered at multiple points of access,
including central specialty pharmacies, 300 community-based
specialty pharmacies, and over 1,000 disease-state specialized
pharmacies that include HIV and Hepatitis C-specialized
pharmacies.
Walgreens adherence program supports healthier member behavior,
resulting in improved adherence, outcomes, readmission rates,
quality scores and health. Overall healthcare costs may be
reduced, helping you stay competitive and maximize market
performance.1
Balance Rewards for healthy choices® encourages
members to make healthier lifestyle choices, which can reduce
preventable illness and healthcare costs. Walgreens has awarded
more than 13.5 billion points for healthy activity since 2014.
Only 45 percent of adults were vaccinated for the flu by
mid-November 2018 yet vaccines reduce risk of flu by up to 60
percent,2,3 prevent 12.4 percent of flu-related
hospitalizations,4 and decrease the number of
workdays lost by 60 percent.5
Combat
increased flu-related complications and a lack of awareness to
decrease your costs and boost employees' health.
Walgreens Healthcare Clinic users had 16 percent lower total
healthcare costs and nearly 30 percent lower out-of-pocket costs
compared to non-users, creating a solution for the shortage of
affordable healthcare.6
1. Roebuck MC, Liberman JN, Gemmill-Toyama M,
Brennan TA. Medication adherence leads to lower health care use
and costs despite increased drug spending. Health Aff.
2011;30(1):91-99
2. Vaccine effectiveness - how well does the
flu vaccine work? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) website. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/qa/vaccineeffect.htm
. Updated August 31, 2016. Accessed October 26, 2016.
3. Osterholm MT, Kelley NS, Sommer A, Belongia
EA. Efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccines: a
systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Infect Dis.
2012;12(1):36-44.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). Estimated influenza illnesses and hospitalizations
averted by vaccination - United States, 2016-17 influenza
season. https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/disease/2016-17.htm.
Updated 2018. Accessed January 2019.
5. Nichol, K. L., Heilly, S. J., Greenberg, M.
E., & Ehlinger, E. (2009). Burden of influenza-like illness and
effectiveness of influenza vaccination among working adults aged
5064 years. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 48(3), 292-298.
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