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Walgreens Boots takes a controlling stake in Shields Health Solutions 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Walgreens Boots takes a controlling stake in Shields Health Solutions

The company will pay $970 million to increase its ownership of the Stoughton-based specialty pharmacy company to 71 percent

Excelera® and Aptitude Health Offer New Specialty Pharmacy Focused Educational Resources for Cancer Care 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Excelera® and Aptitude Health Offer New Specialty Pharmacy Focused Educational Resources for Cancer Care

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Excelera®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shields Health Solutions and the company behind the Excelera Network, announced today a new specialty pharmacy-focused educational offering in partnership with Aptitude Health, which provides critical insights…

Excelera Network Welcomes Kettering Health 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Excelera Network Welcomes Kettering Health

MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Kettering Health has entered an agreement with Excelera®, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Shields Health Solutions and the company behind the Excelera Network, making it the first Excelera Network member in…

Study Shows Shields Health Solutions Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Model Significantly Reduces Total Cost of Care 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Study Shows Shields Health Solutions Integrated Specialty Pharmacy Model Significantly Reduces Total Cost of Care

BOSTON, April 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Shields Health Solutions (Shields), the leading health system specialty pharmacy integrator, announced today the results of a joint study with Optum Advisory Services that…

Excelera Network Welcomes Rush University Medical Center to Optimize and Innovate Specialty Pharmacy Services 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

Excelera Network Welcomes Rush University Medical Center to Optimize and Innovate Specialty Pharmacy Services

MINNEAPOLIS, MN, December 21, 2020 — Rush University Medical Center (RUMC) has partnered with Excelera®, the company behind the Excelera Network, making it the second Excelera Network member in the…

Meet HOSP: The Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance 1024 576 Shields Health Solutions

Meet HOSP: The Health System Owned Specialty Pharmacy Alliance

Much like us at Shields Health Solutions, the fully integrated specialty pharmacies market is growing rapidly. It became clear that there needed to be a trade organization committed to advocating…

JAMA Network Open Reports Specialty Pharmacy Partnership Between Shields Health Solutions and UMass Memorial Medical Center Yields Significant Reduction in Total Cost of Care for Patients Filling Prescriptions at Hospital Pharmacy 843 317 Shields Health Solutions

JAMA Network Open Reports Specialty Pharmacy Partnership Between Shields Health Solutions and UMass Memorial Medical Center Yields Significant Reduction in Total Cost of Care for Patients Filling Prescriptions at Hospital Pharmacy
An article published n the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open, a three-year study (2016-2018) revealed that patients living with chronic illnesses such as cancer, transplants, rheumatoid arthritis, and other diseases were associated with significantly lower total medical expenditure when filling their prescriptions at the hospital’s own specialty pharmacy, rather than using an outside specialty pharmacy.
ExceleraRx Corp.’s Gerzenshtein to Present at Vanderbilt Health-Systems Specialty Pharmacy Outcomes Research Summit 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

ExceleraRx Corp.’s Gerzenshtein to Present at Vanderbilt Health-Systems Specialty Pharmacy Outcomes Research Summit
Wolfe joins Excelera with significant experience in building strategic pharmaceutical manufacturer relationships for publicly traded and private organizations in the healthcare sector
COVID — Potential Impact on PBMS and Payers 1024 152 Shields Health Solutions

COVID — Potential Impact on PBMS and Payers

Most Americans seem to be moving on from initial COVID-19 panic, and we are seeing states follow suit by systematically putting plans in place to open back up. This post-pandemic…

How Health System Specialty Pharmacies Will Help Payers Succeed in a Value-Based, Data-Driven Future 204 115 Shields Health Solutions

How Health System Specialty Pharmacies Will Help Payers Succeed in a Value-Based, Data-Driven Future

This white paper highlights the importance of collaboration between payers and health systems and the benefits of carving in specialty pharmacy access at the point of care. These partnerships are…