Are You Doing Enough To Drive Generics?

From the Express Scripts Outcomes event a few weeks ago, here is an estimate of all the money left on the table by not increasing your generic fill rate in certain key categories.  Are you doing enough?

• Utilization management programs – step therapy, prior authorization, quantity level limits?
• Formulary coverage?
• Plan design incentives?
• Pharmacy incentives?
• eRx messaging?
• Web tools?
• Patient communications?
• Patient incentives?
• Driving people to mail?

Here is a graph from CVS/Caremark‘s trend report from last year that shows correlation between certain programs and generic fill rate.