PHARMACY
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HOSPI TALS/SYSTEMS WI TH MEDICAL GROUP PRACT ICES
SANOFI / MANAGED CARE DIGEST SERIES
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HOSPITALS/SYSTEMS DIGEST 2013
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
Percentage of Groups
5–6 Physicians
7–9 Physicians
10–14 Physicians
15–19 Physicians
20+ Physicians
66.1%
57.8%
68.8%
55.7%
71.1%
57.1%
70.1%
60.6%
77.8%
62.7%
Medical Groups in Systems
Medical Groups Not in Systems
Medical group practices with pharmacy services, by system affiliation, 2012
Key Takeaway
Pharmacy services are more commonly offered at large or multispecialty medical groups, and
the numbers of medical group practices falling into those categories increased in 2012 (see page
50). As medical groups increasingly participate in coordinated care programs, like accountable
care organizations and patient-centered medical homes, their offerings in the area of prescription
services may expand as their services become more and more centralized and the associated
operational costs remain manageable.
Data source: IMS Health © 2013
• In 2012, medical group practices affiliated with
systems were more likely to offer pharmacy
services than those groups that were not tied
to systems, regardless of the size of the group.
• For example, 77.8% of system-tied groups with
20 or more physicians had pharmacy services
in 2012—15.1 percentage points higher than
nonsystem groups of a similar size (62.7%).
0%
12%
24%
36%
48%
Percentage of Groups
11.6%
11.9%
13.8%
14.9%
13.8%
13.1%
12.7%
11.6%
36.3%
37.1%
37.4%
36.4%
35.3%
35.5%
34.5%
30.5%
26.2%
27.1%
26.9%
27.3%
26.6%
26.0%
25.3%
22.8%
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
Single Specialty
Multispecialty
Overall Average
MEDICAL GROUP PRACTICES IN SYSTEMS OFFERING FULL PHARMACY SERVICES, 2005–2012
Pharmacy Services Are More Common Among Groups in Systems
• In 2012, the portion of multispecialty medical
group practices that provided full pharmacy
services fell four percentage points, to 30.5%,
the lowest share among the years profiled.
• Meanwhile, the percentage of single-specialty
groups offering full pharmacy services fell to
11.6% in 2012 from 12.7% the previous year,
the fourth consecutive annual decline.
Share of Multispecialty Groups With Full Pharmacy Offerings Drops
LONG-TERM TREND
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