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title: A Broader Reach for Pharmacy Plan Design | Integrated Benefits Institute
description: Without key, cross-silo information, employers that implement medical cost controls via pharmacy plan design for employees run the risk of discouraging treatment essential to employees’ health-related productivity and quality of life. This IBI study, relying on a master database furnished by Ingenix, demonstrates the unanticipated consequences in increased short-term disability and lost productivity for rheumatoid […]
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# [A Broader Reach for Pharmacy Plan Design | Integrated Benefits Institute](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/a-broader-reach-for-pharmacy-plan-design)

 Written by [Integrated Benefits Institute](https://blog.ibiweb.org/blog/author/integrated-benefits-institute) | May 1, 2007 2:00:00 PM

Without key, cross-silo information, employers that implement medical cost controls via pharmacy plan design for employees run the risk of discouraging treatment essential to employees’ health-related productivity and quality of life. This IBI study, relying on a master database furnished by Ingenix, demonstrates the unanticipated consequences in increased short-term disability and lost productivity for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) that can occur when employers increase out-of-pocket expenses for necessary medications. If new “value-based benefit designs” are truly going to add demonstrated value, they must draw treatment, cost and impact links across traditional benefits lines through an integrated database.

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