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The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy is a professional association of individual pharmacists who use the tools and techniques of managed care in the practice of pharmacy. At the heart of every member is commitment to a simple goal: Provision of the best available pharmaceutical care for patients.
    As an organization, the Academy strives to achieve its mission of empowering its members to serve society by providing opportunities for continued professional growth, by advancing individual and collective knowledge. Throughout the year, AMCP provides conferences, online learning access, peer-reviewed literature through its Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy, and leadership development seminars.
    The focus of the Academy has been to create scientifically designed methodologies for making medical choices as intelligently as current knowledge will allow, supported by evidence-based clinical studies. Some of the Academy’s most successful products to date are AMCP’s Format for Formulary Submissions and the AMCP Framework for Quality Drug Therapy. The Format is a standardized methodology for assessing drugs scientifically, based on the value they provide. Widely
adopted by numerous health plans, governmental agencies such as the Department of Defense and leading pharmacy benefit management companies, the Format has become a de facto industry standard. Managed care organizations employing the Format cover approximately half of all pharmacy care beneficiaries. Two other significant contributions to managed care practice include AMCP’s Guide to Pharmaceutical Payment Methods and Sound Medication Therapy Management Programs, V2.0. The Guide is a comprehensive, factual description and analysis of alternative drug payment methods and payment systems, including a review of the history, current application, potential future utility, impact on managed care pharmacy, other stakeholders in the pharmaceutical marketplace and the overall health care delivery system. It includes a glossary of payment terms, tables showing which payers and settings utilize which methods, payment flowcharts to illustrate how the money flows with each of the payment systems and examples of payment calculations. Downloadable in a summary and a comprehensive format from the AMCP website, it is accompanied by a web-based interactive resource library. These and all other AMCP publications, including the Journal, can be found on the AMCP website, www.amcp.org.

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