For the second year in a row, PHAR was presented with a Silver Medal by the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy. This year, the award was for a study on health care resource use and costs associated with high OCS use in patients with asthma, conducted by researchers at PHAR and Genentech, Inc., The retrospective claims analysis found that high OCS use was associated with significantly higher costs than no OCS use, especially in patients with possible side effects in the high OCS use cohort. The study can be viewed here.