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Case Study: Using the Internet, research on a series of topics that will help you understand the current issues regarding managed care. You can use keywords, such as (but not limited to) managed care, current trends and issues in managed care, pharmacy benefit management, or utilization management. Like many other aspects of health care, managed care is continually changing and evolving to meet current consumer and market demands. This week, you are required to compose an essay on the following topics:

• Pharmacy benefit management
• Utilization management

Questions: Use the following guidelines:

• Select at least two articles for each topic, and compose a review for each source of information. (You don't need to address this requirement. But I need at least two references for each topic in References page)
• Present a summary for each topic tying together the information learned about that topic. (present one summary for PBM and another summary for UM.)
• Describe and evaluate the market forces, current trends, and changes in drug benefit programs over the last fifteen years. (Please find articles to address this)
• Discuss basic approaches and techniques used in utilization management.
• Analyze the future of utilization management approaches. How might they change and why? (The textbook has some information. Please find additional articles published in 2020s to address the future of utilization management.)
• Justify your ideas and responses by using appropriate examples and references from reputable and scholarly texts, websites, and other references.