Brown bagging is a process where a specialty pharmacy dispenses a specialty medication to a patient that will eventually be administered within a clinic or provider office. This type of bagging has benefits and challenges for health systems.

Over the past few years, health insurers have increasingly begun to adopt policies referred to as “white bagging” and “brown bagging,” which require patients with complex, chronic, or rare conditions to obtain certain treatments (i.e., specialty drugs) from specialty pharmacies.

2024年6月27日 · Brown Bagging. Brown bagging policies allow patients to pick up their prescribed drugs at a specialty pharmacy or have the drugs delivered to them. Then the patient brings the drug to the healthcare provider for administration.

“Brown bagging” refers to the dispensing of a medication from a pharmacy (typically a specialty pharmacy) directly to a patient, who then transports the medication(s) to the physician’s office for administration.

2021年3月30日 · Brown bagging is a common term for the practice of patients picking up drugs through their pharmacy benefit. Then the patient brings the drugs to a physician’s office or hospital to have them administered. This may be an option for chemotherapy and specialty drugs.

2023年9月25日 · White bagging and brown bagging are two distinct ways of delivering specialty medications to patients that have gained prominence in recent years. But how do they stack up to clear bagging and the newest standard of gold bagging? And where does traditional buy and bill fit …

2023年2月13日 · The terms brown bagging, white bagging, and clear bagging are frequently used to describe the way in which a specialty medication is obtained prior to patient administration by a healthcare professional. 1 Brown bagging is the term used when a patient obtains their medication from a specialty pharmacy and takes it to the provider’s office for ...

2023年4月25日 · To combat rising costs, payers have turned to white, brown and clear bagging as well as approaches to restrict the site of care where patients receive specialty drugs. What are these “bagging” policies, what are the pros and cons, and what legislation has or is considered being passed to restrict payers ability to implement these programs.

information about the practice of brown bagging, its advantages and disadvantages, selection criteria, factors that should be taken into account when considering implementation of a brown bagging program as well as the role of pharmacists in this practice.

Variations to white bagging include “brown bagging” and “clear bagging.” With a brown-bagging system, patients pick up the drug at a specialty pharmacy or have it delivered to their home before bringing it to the hospital or clinic for administration.