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Vaccine manufacturers have publicly announced that the boosters would be ready this fall, and the FDA anticipates they will be available “in the near future.”

Thompson, the president and CEO of the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, said rebates and pass through are just the “tip of the iceberg” of the misalignment between employers and PBMs that disadvantages employers.

Panelists at the 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference mentioned post-marketing studies and changing the mind-set about what a prescription entails.

Russell Graney, Founder and CEO of Aidin, is one of 12 winners in this year's Emerging Leaders in Healthcare feature. In an interview with MHE, Graney talked about appreciating advice he received from healthcare veterans during the start-up of Aidin, but sifting through the right input for his business.

This House bill combines aspects of previously submitted bills — specifically on transparency related to prices on hospital services, laboratory tests, healthcare coverage and PBMs — into one package.

Russell Graney, Founder and CEO, Aidin, which helps patients find the best quality care after they leave the hospital while at the same time helping hospitals nationwide streamline the process of discharging patients, is one of the 12 up-and-coming leaders in healthcare included in the annual Managed Healthcare Executive feature.

Kyna Fong, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder, Elation Health, is one of 12 winners in this year's Emerging Leaders in Healthcare feature. In an interview with MHE, Fong shared a guilty pleasure of her's is Na Ya Dessert Cafe in San Francisco's Hayes Valley. In addition to a guilty pleasure, Fong also talked about a career turning point she experienced, and what book she recommends to healthcare professionals.

Mike Steelman, vice president, Managed Markets, Dexcom presented on the pathways to implement non-prescription digital therapeutics at the 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference in Orlando. In this interview with Managed Healthcare Executive, Steelman suggests that creating "certainty in an uncertain world" in the digital therapeutic space could potentially open up doors for further use of these tools.

Mike Baldzicki, chief commercial officer, Premier Pharmacy Services, shared some takeaways from his presentation on the rare-ultra orphan disease market and its therapies at the 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference in Orlando.

There is a huge opportunity for savings from the recently launched Humira biosimilars and others expected to reach the market in the next few years. But plans and PBMs will need to step into the role that pharmaceutical manufacturers once did in supporting patients and prescribers.

At the 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference in Orlando, Ellen Feeney, director of Clinical Pharmacy Strategies at Highmark discusses how these new programs payers are using to control medication costs work, and shares how costs of the GLP-1s should be managed.

Ittai Dayan, M.D., M.P.H., co-founder and CEO of Rhino Health, is one of 12 winners in this year's Emerging Leaders in Healthcare feature. In this video interview, Dayan not only shares a good read for healthcare professionals, but also a turning point that changed his career trajectory and even a guilty pleasure of his — which involves finishing a scoop or more of his son's ice cream.

Ozempic (semaglutide) is second only to Humira (adalimumab) in sales, according to the IQVIA vice president of industry relations and a frequent speaker at conference. And for newly launched drugs, sales figures for Mounjaro (tirzepatide) are second only to what they were for Harvoni (ledipasvir and sofosbuvir), a hepatitis C antiviral, when the hepatitis C antivirals were new.

In an observational cohort study published in the September 2023 issue of The Lancet, Jiangwei Sun, Ph.D., from the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, and his colleagues compared statin users with non-statin users to determine the risk of colorectal cancer in patients with IBD.

Kyna Fong, Ph.D., CEO and co-founder, Elation Health, the clinical-first technology platform for high-value primary care, is one of the 12 up-and-coming leaders in healthcare included in the annual Managed Healthcare Executive feature.

Payers are trying to figure out how to provide access to patients who would benefit from weight loss drugs such as semaglutide but also control costs.

As cell- and gene-based therapies become available for new and expanded indications with a higher incidence of patients, payers will be challenged to find ways to provide access to patients.

At the 2023 PBMI Annual National Conference in Orlando, Ellen Feeney, director of Clinical Pharmacy Strategies at Highmark shares the tools payers are using to control medication costs outside the traditional ones like utilization management. Feeney also talked about the new program that Highmark kickstarted in 2022 to help manage medication costs.

At this year's PBMI Annual National Conference in Orlando Ben Urick, principal health outcomes researcher at Prime Therapeutics, shared methods for medical cost savings through adherence improvement using integrated medical and pharmacy claims data.

Greg Baker, CEO of AffirmedRx, one of the many new, smaller pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) challenging the status quo, listed the eight things that employers should know about their PBM. Baker planned to share six key points at the 2023 PBMI National Annual Conference in Orlando, but shared two more with conference goers.

Sampson Davis, M.D., an emergency medicine physician and best-selling author, says a tailored approach is needed.

Ittai Dayan, M.D., M.P.H., co-founder and CEO of Rhino Health, connecting the world’s disparate health data with federated computing, in order to unlock insight and create powerful artificial intelligence, is one of the 12 up-and-coming leaders in healthcare included in the annual Managed Healthcare Executive feature.

Case and care management can help health plans cope with seven-figure cell and gene therapies, according to panelists at the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute’s annual meeting.

Alina M. Czekai, M.P.H., vice president, value-based care strategy, Cohere Health, is one of 12 winners in this year's Emerging Leaders in Healthcare feature. In this video interview, Czekai shares a turning point that changed her career trajectory, recommends a good read for healthcare professionals, and even spills her guilty pleasure: some time with the "Real Housewives" and a glass of red wine.

The keynote speaker for the three-day meeting in Orlando is Sampson Davis, M.D., an emergency medicine physician in New Jersey, an inspirational speaker and co-author of three best-selling books.

Alina Czekai, M.P.H., vice president of value-based care strategy at Cohere Health, a patient-centric, digital health company committed to streamlining the prior authorization process, is one of the 12 up-and-coming leaders in healthcare included in the annual Managed Healthcare Executive feature.