
As specialty drug spend tops 50% of pharmacy costs, health system specialty pharmacies are evolving from dispensers into longitudinal care management partners.
Hinal Sharma is a diabetes clinical care coach at Shields Health Solutions.

As specialty drug spend tops 50% of pharmacy costs, health system specialty pharmacies are evolving from dispensers into longitudinal care management partners.

Specialty pharmacies are moving beyond the dispense—layering SDOH screening, adherence coaching, and chronic disease management into the patient journey.

Bill McElnea and Hinal Sharma discuss how the role of a specialty pharmacy will evolve in the next few years.

Bill McElnea and Hinal Sharma discuss the evolving role of a specialty pharmacy.