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The AJMC editorial team was in Las Vegas this week to cover this year's National Association of Managed Care Professionals Fall Managed Care Forum. As always, AJMC strives to bring you the most relevant useful content that impacts the delivery of quality healthcare in the United States. This week's In Focus strives to bring the most salient points of the 3-day meeting directly to you.

According to a report by Elsevier's BusinessIntelligence, UnitedHealthcare has announced that pharmacies that are participating in its Designated Specialty Pharmacy network will no longer redeem manufacturer-sponsored coupons as an offset to member cost-sharing payments for 6 specialty drugs beginning January 1, 2013.

Trade secrets may potentially be used to protect manufacturing processes for biological drugs--yet there is concern that the new law on biosimilars, the BPCIA (Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009), and the accompanying FDA regulations, may expose trade secrets of both originators and biosimilar applicants.

The American Journal of Managed Care editorial team attended the American College of Chest Physicians' CHEST 2012 Meeting in Atlanta, GA, this past week. Although a very clinical conference, there were many studies released that will directly impact payers. Here are some of the highlights of our coverage.