Tag Archives: self-funded

Independence Blue Cross and Sun Life Collaborate on Stop Loss Insurance

Independence Blue Cross and Sun Life U.S. collaborate to provide Stop Loss insurance for Independence’s self-funded group customers

Walmart Health Loses Key Executive, Cheryl Pegus, to JP Morgan Chase’s Morgan Health

Cheryl Pegus has left Walmart Health and will join JP Morgan Chase & Co.’s Morgan Health venture as managing director, with aims to improve employer-sponsored healthcare

McKesson Acquires Rx Savings Solutions To Support Biopharma Services Growth

McKesson to acquire RxSS, a prescription price transparency and benefit insight company that offers affordability and adherence solutions to health plans and employers, reaching more than 17 million current patients

IngenioRx Growing External to Anthem’s Book of Business

Anthem has viewed a large part of IngenioRx’s growth to come from the company’s own self-funded book of business

ACA Supreme Court Deliberations and Any Impact on Biosimilars?

If the court strikes down the ACA entirely, biosimilars on the U.S. market or in the FDA approval pipeline would have to either be grandfathered in or face a regulatory wind-down

Designing Pharmacy and Medical Benefits for Cancer Care

Designing Pharmacy and Medical Benefits for Cancer Care: An Employer Perspective – published in Value-Based Cancer Care F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, RPh, FASHP; Catherine E. Cooke, PharmD, BCPS October 2016, Vol 7, No 9 – Employers’ Perspective With the increasing complexity of cancer care after the passing of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, employers as […]

Employer Perspectives Specialty Drug Step-Therapy Program Evaluation

Employer Perspectives Specialty Drug Step-Therapy Program Evaluation American Health and Drug Benefits, September 2016 Vol 9, No 6 – Industry Trends Matthew Harman, PharmD, MPH, Director, Clinical Pharmacy Strategies Employers Health, Columbus, OH F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, RPh, Strategic Advisor and Co–Project Leader, Midwest Business Group on Health National Employer Biologics & Specialty Drug Initiative […]

Oncology Care Marketing Increasing

Knowsource.com Announces Transition to Access Market Intelligence

Oncology care marketing increasing in the U.S. marketplace. However, continuing benefit coverage planning for 2017 are also topics that are receiving increasing attention—to include cancer care. Just as the new oncology product pipeline is providing new options or treatments for a wide variety of cancers, market stakeholders are continuing to adjust their daily practices around providing […]