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“The Behavioral Pharmacy Management process is an excellent approach to improving health care. It’s a process that promotes evidence-based care while helping to save valuable healthcare dollars.”
—Linda Rosenberg, MSW, president and CEO, National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
Utah
Utah’s BPM program began in March 2004. A study of prescribers who received educational material from the program found that between Jan. 1, 2004, and Aug. 31, 20051:
- The number of child and adolescent patients receiving three or more psychotropics decreased by 76 percent.
- The number prescribing two or more atypicals decreased by 74 percent.
- The number of adult patients receiving five or more psychotropics decreased by 68 percent.
- For those prescribers who received notification that their patients were being prescribed behavioral drugs by multiple prescribers, the number who continued this prescribing pattern decreased by 74 percent.
- Also, between June 2004 and September 2005, there was no substantial increase in monthly behavioral pharmacy claims despite an increase in Medicaid enrollment.
¹ [No Authors Listed]. Working Hand-in-Hand to Manage Pharmacy Costs. Utah’s Innovative Use of the Behavioral Pharmacy Management Program. Behavioral Healthcare 2006 May; 26; 40-42.
