Integrated Pharmacy Management

More than ten cents of every pharmacy benefit dollar is spent on psychiatric drugs, and nearly half of pharmacy benefit management companies say those drugs are their biggest cost category. About 19 million American adults suffer from depression.

Rising cost of prescriptions is one of the most challenging issues in health services delivery today. Psychotropic medications represent some of the highest prescription drug costs to employers and consumers, because they are typically taken for an extended period of time.

An integrated EAP and pharmacy strategy can better identify cost drivers and help employers establish a proactive preventive healthcare strategy.

Patient education efforts, disease management programs for behavioral health disorders and ongoing physician education can help decrease pharmaceutical costs and increase productivity rates. eni's Integrated Pharmacy Benefit will educate employees about the medication and coordinate the appropriate (voluntary) care to help them resolve the underlying behavioral or psychosocial issue(s) driving the need for the medication. The employee is likely to see much greater benefit from the drug therapy when it is combined with counseling which not only reduces the duration of the drug therapy in most cases, but improves the overall well-being of the employee.

Patient education efforts, disease management programs for behavioral health disorders and ongoing physician education can help decrease pharmaceutical costs and increase productivity rates. eni's Integrated Pharmacy Benefit will educate employees about the medication and coordinate the appropriate (voluntary) care to help them resolve the underlying behavioral or psychosocial issue(s) driving the need for the medication.