he pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committees of health plans have traditionally requested drug information from pharmaceutical manufacturers to assist them in the formulary review process. Until the turn of the century, manufacturers often responded to this request by providing information regarding potential price rebates and sending formulary kits containing marketing materials and clinical trial reprints.1 Concerns pertaining to the comprehensiveness and veracity of information provided by manufacturers led to the development of formulary submission guidelines, which served to formalize, standardize, and expand the information required for formulary review.2 In 2000, the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) developed its Format for Formulary Submissions, a template for health plans to use to develop their own formulary submission guidelines. 3 The Format has since been modified several times, most recently in April 2005. 4 While the use of formulary submission guidelines was slow to evolve, 5 they have come into widespread use, with more than 50 health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, hospitals, state Medicaid programs, or other public agencies (covering more than 100 million people) adopting the AMCP Format or a Format-like process.
6The centerpiece of the formulary submission process is the dossier, a standardized set of clinical and economic evidence prepared by pharmaceutical manufacturers and presented to health plans in response to unsolicited requests, for the plans' consideration during the formulary decision-making process. Many health plans questioned the quality of the first sets of dossiers they received, citing what they perceived to be poorly constructed dossiers containing incomplete or unreliable data. 7,8 While the quality and completeness of dossiers have reportedly improved over time, 9,10 recent research examining the response rate BACKGROUND: The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Format for Formulary Submissions, a template for health plans to use in developing formulary submission guidelines, has been widely adopted since its initial release in 2000. Many health plans request a dossier (a standardized set of clinical and economic evidence prepared by pharmaceutical manufacturers) to provide information for consideration during the formulary decision-making process. While dossier quality has reportedly improved over time, there is no recent research examining the response rate to dossier requests and the quality of dossiers received.OBJECTIVE: To perform an evaluation of pharmaceutical manufacturers' response to a request for a product dossier prepared using the AMCP Format, and to determine if dossier receipt was associated with a favorable formulary placement.
METHODS: The pharmacy and therapeutics (P&T) committee of a mid-Atlantic health plan with approximately 3 million members reviewed 43 drug products from February 2004 through December 2005. A university-based clinical evaluation subcontractor requested dossiers in the AMCPFormat by telephone and e-mail from the manufa...
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