Challenges Ahead in 2021

The CEOs of CVS Health and UnitedHealth Group praised pharmacy benefit managers and promised transparency during investor calls. A critic of the “big 3” dismissed the statements as posturing.

In this week’s episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast, Briana Contreras, an editor of Managed Healthcare Executive spoke with Julien Pham, MD, founder and managing partner of Third Culture Capital (3CC).

The 2024 increase is the same as last year's increase for family coverage. The foundation’s annual survey of employer health benefits also found that only 18% of large employers (200 employees are more) are covering the GLP-1 weight loss drugs.

In this episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite, Managing Editor of Managed Healthcare Executive, Peter Wehrwein, speaks with President of Value Evolutions and MHE Editorial Advisory Board Member, Doug Chaet, FACHE, about value-based care's current standing, the status of select payment models like bundled and episodic, and more.

Canadian health officials warn that maintaining a drug supply for Canadians is their priority. The staunch opposition of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry may also be an obstacle to imports from north of the border.

We conducted our annual State of the Industry survey in the early part of November 2023. The survey had 432 respondents, of whom 56% self-reported working for a payer organization (pharmacy benefit manager, insurer or self-insured employer), 34% for a provider organization and the remainder for government or an unspecified “other” category.