Benefits Magazine: January/February 2026

Articles Include:

• Building a Smart Specialty Medication Strategy: Lowering Costs and Protecting Access
• The Evolution of QDIAs: Unlocking Better Retirement Security?
• Workplace Strategies to Address the Global Mental Health Crisis
• Equipped to Help: Workplace Training on Suicide Prevention and Intervention
• Legal & Legislative Reporter

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  Building a Smart Specialty Medication Strategy: Lowering Costs and Protecting Access

  Seth Friedman and Nathan Drapkin

  Specialty drug cost management offers a strategic test of how well benefit design, clinical strategy and financing models can adapt to 21st-century medicine. What steps should plan sponsors take to address the challenges of providing access to innovative treatments while managing financial risk?