The report describes cost, prescription counts, and generic vs brand by provider specialty and provider group. The drug class ranking and individual drug ranking panels add detailed data to support the user gaining a complete picture of prescriber trends and related costs.
Target Audience for this Report
Chief Medical Officer, Finance Department and CFO, Leadership Team, Medical management/Care Management Department, Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, Physician Relations, and Utilization Management.
Business Processes Impacted by this Report
Comparative data which describes provider services supports provider education and improvements in care delivery.
Provides answers to questions regarding provider prescribing patterns: 1) Are members receiving the current Rx standard of care; 2) Are providers prescribing new and/or expensive drugs appropriately; 3) Should any pre-authorization processes be changed to control prescribing. The P&T Committee, CMO, Medical Management and PBM will use this report to track, trend, and evaluate prescriber patterns.
Detail and Definitions
This entire visualization is based off the detailed reporting period. The header information, includes “Total Scripts”, “Total Plan Paid”, “Scripts/Member”, and “Paid/Script”. Note that the header information is active and will change when selections are made/filters are applied.
Provider Specialty Ranking
- Provider Specialty
- Script Count
- Script/1000
- Total Paid
Prescriber
- Prescriber
- Script Count
- Total Paid
Drug Class
- Drug Class
- Script Count
- Patients
- Total Paid
- Paid/Member
Drug
- Drug
- Script Count
- Patients
- Total Paid
- Paid/Member
Generic Brand (Graph)
- Type (Generic, Brand, Other)
- Total Paid
Scripts (Graph)
- Type (Generic, Brand, Other)
- Scripts (Total scripts)
Generic Brand % (Graph)
- Generic, Brand, and Other by percentage of scripts
The table “Provider Specialty Ranking” includes the specialty, along with script count, script/1000, and plan paid amounts.
The table “Provider Group Ranking”, includes the Prescriber group, script count, and total paid amount.
Note that filtering order in the visualization is:
- Provider Specialty Ranking (not a required selection)
- Provider Group Ranking (not a required selection)
- Drug Class Ranking
When filters are applied (or not), the bar and pie charts for brand vs. generic are influenced.