The Fallon Clinic - Insights on outpatient formulary management in a vertically integrated health care system

The Fallen Clinic, Worcester, MA, is an organization that has expanded over the decades from a physician group practice to a vertically integrated. managed care organization. In this interview with Formulary, members of the clinic's outpatient P & T Committee present their strategies on formulary management, drug utilization, and prescriber education. Among the distinct features of Fallen Clinic's formulary and drug review process are its proactive, physician-directed P & T Committee; a two-step formulary review and bid process; an individual drug review approach that examines a drug's role in terms of total patient care and, total cost of patient care; and a multifaceted prescriber educational program.