Startup targets underserved supplemental-healthcare niche
SingleCare plans to ‘disrupt’ healthcare benefit market by improving transparency in underserved and non-covered services through its discount program, says founder Rick Bates.
Pharmacy benefit management
Opioid epidemic hitting employers’ bottom line
Plan sponsors look to implement health and pharmacy benefit programs that address painkiller addiction and abuse.
UnitedHealth takes on CVS, Express Scripts with drugs deal
UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s OptumRx unit struck an agreement to ease customers’ access to drugs through Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.’s drugstores, a move to help the business compete with rival pharmacy benefit managers.
How Express Scripts is looking to hold down drug prices
Steve Miller, the pharmacy benefit manager’s chief medical officer, addresses the key cost drivers and what the PBM is doing to guard against increases.
How Express Scripts is looking to hold down drug prices
Steve Miller, the pharmacy benefit manager’s chief medical officer, addresses the key cost drivers and what the PBM is doing to guard against increases.
Benefits Think Taming Rx drug costs could save employers big money
Excessive and expensive treatment is at the core of the healthcare cost crisis, says Brian Klepper.
Brian Klepper
Worksite Health Advisors
Benefits Think Excessive treatment and cost at core of U.S. healthcare crisis
Other countries and some innovative firms here consistently deliver equal or better quality care at dramatically lower cost, betraying the idea that conventional U.S. healthcare is superior or even appropriate.
Brian Klepper
Worksite Health Advisors