Pharmacy Consulting
Pharmacy is no longer a side conversation in your benefits strategy. It is one of the largest, fastest-growing, and most complex parts of what you spend on employee health, and it carries a real fiduciary responsibility to the people and the dollars behind it. New high-cost therapies hit the market every quarter. PBM economics shift underneath you. Members face more complexity at every step. Managing this benefit often stretches across teams and consumes time your organization does not have.
EPIC’s Pharmacy Solutions practice, powered by PSG, was built to help you manage that complexity. For more than 30 years, our clinical pharmacists, contracting specialists, and data experts have helped plan sponsors choose the right PBM, hold partners accountable, and turn pharmacy data into clear decisions so your spend works harder and your members get the care they need.
Our Services
- Procurement. Find the right PBM using our market knowledge, financial analysis, and best-in-class benchmarking and scoring methodology.
- Market checks. Keep pricing, contract terms, and guarantees competitive year over year in a constantly moving market.
- Contracting. Negotiate with confidence, backed by experience on hundreds of PBM contracts.
- Strategic vendor and clinical oversight. Hold your PBM to its commitments and performance guarantees while making sure members receive clinically appropriate, cost-effective medication.
- Auditing. Verify PBM performance, catch emerging trends, and keep your drug spend on track.
- Analytics with Artemetrx. Make decisions backed by data, not assumptions, using our proprietary medical and pharmacy analytics platform.
- Implementation support. Move from contract to launch without losing momentum or member experience.
- Clinical program optimization. Manage the impact of GLP-1s, biosimilars, cell and gene therapies, and other emerging high-cost categories.
Why Clients Choose EPIC
- Trusted pharmacy expertise. Pharmacy is complex, but it should not feel that way to you. With 15+ clinical pharmacists and more than 30 years of experience, we guide every part of your pharmacy strategy, from clinical decisions to contract terms.
- Data-driven decisions, not guesswork. Pharmacy is not a set-it-and-forget-it benefit. We use a proprietary analytics platform built on nearly 2 billion medical and pharmacy claim records to uncover issues early, reduce unnecessary cost, and improve results.
- Flexible options, not one-size-fits-all. Your pharmacy program should reflect your workforce, goals, and budget. We design solutions around your needs and adjust as those needs change.
- Oversight that does not stop at renewal. EPIC Complete protects your drug spend from procurement through renewal with ongoing market checks, clinical review, and consulting.
Featured Case Study
Stopping a High-Cost Specialty Claim Early
See How Proactive Pharmacy Oversight Reduces Spend.
One high-cost claim can significantly impact your pharmacy budget if it goes unchecked. In this case study, a specialty medication costing more than $20,000 per month was identified early, corrected within weeks, and reduced ongoing costs by 50 percent.
See how early detection, clinical review, and ongoing oversight helped this employer avoid unnecessary spend and support better member care.
