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Metro Areas Where Employers Influence Cancer Coverage Costs

Metro Areas Where Employers Influence Cancer Coverage Costs. Employers currently represent approximately 60% of the commercial insurance market dollars. The Employer commercial insurance market consists of more than 95,000 companies with self-insured plans, eighty percent of whom have less than 2,000 employees. Entering 2017, these employers face double-digit increases in the cost of prescription drugs […]

Current PBM Model Threatened by New-Entity PBMs

Changes are happening in the PBM market. Traditional services offered by PBMs will be supplanted by new PBM entities that will develop formularies among the services they offer. The new entity PBMs manage and supplement PBM services as an advocate for health care payers. Services include prescription claims analysis and consultation, drug coverage management, PBM contracts […]