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After more than 20 years at Humana, Jeremy Gaskill now leads nonprofit Geisinger Health Plan. The problems are the same, he says, the scale for solving them differs.

Jeremy Gaskill took the reins at the Geisinger Health Plan earlier this year after a long career at Humana. He discusses the similarities and differences between Geisinger and Humana and the advantages of a health plan that is part of a health system.

The retail pharmacies will be in one company and Aetna and CVS Caremark, the PBM, in another, according to news reports.

Christine Johnston warns a thin biosimilar pipeline keeps specialty costs high and slows innovation and urges payers to check their PBM’s top 25 drugs.

Speakers and researchers at this year's meeting in San Diego focused on drug pricing policy, getting savings to patients at the pharmacy counter and keeping people in charge of AI.

The generic twice-yearly HIV prevention shot is expected to cost $40 a year in 120 countries, 16 months after Gilead's original approval.

Annual healthcare costs jump by almost $25,000 with targeted therapy for atopic dermatitis that avoided costs from reduced hospitalizations and ER visits only partly offset, according to recently reported research findings.

Findings from an analysis of IQVIA claims data show a prevalence rate that is five times lower than previous reports. Some of the discrepancy could be chalked up to the difference between using claims data instead of self-reporting by survey respondents.