Most-Read Conference Coverage of 2021
Readers were interested in what pharmacy benefit managers are doing and content that came out of the ISPOR annual meeting in 2021.
PBM Leaders: A Conversation with Ken Paulus, CEO and President of Prime Therapeutics, Part 2
In the second part of an interview with Managing Editor Peter Wehrwein, Paulus talks about the role of PBMs and aligning providers with payers.
ISPOR: Matthew Reynolds of IQVIA Addresses Potential Overuse of Telehealth
Matthew Reynolds, PhD, vice president of real-world evidence at IQVIA, discusses his appreciation for telehealth and remote care, but feels over the next year or so we're going to be seeing more studies come out questioning if some telehealth is needed in certain areas. The discussion came from findings of a recent paper with the National Pharmaceutical Council on how COVID-19 affected real-world data and research.
PBM Leaders: A Conversation with Ken Paulus, Prime Therapeutics President and CEO, Part 3
In the third part of an interview with Managed Healthcare Executive®, Paulus discusses Prime's collaboration with Express Scripts, the GPO they co-own and bringing some uniformity to the pharmacy benefit management of the 23 health plans that Prime services.
ISPOR: Are Value-based Programs Finishing What Fee-for-Service Couldn't?
Dr. Vivian Lee of Verily Life Sciences addresses if value-based care programs have steered U.S healthcare away from the problems of fee-for-service at a virtual ISPOR meeting today. Lee also shares her thoughts on if the pandemic changed her views of American healthcare.
6 Takeaways From 2021 PBMI Annual National Conference
The specialty drug spend and data flow and connectivity were among the themes of the presentations given at the hybrid conference this week in Orlando, Florida.
Healthcare hasn't been a priority of the second Trump administration so far, panelists at the Asembia agreed. Medicaid may loom large, though, as the administration and congressional Republicans look for ways to slash government spending as a way of offsetting major tax cuts.
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Conversations With Perry and Friends
April 14th 2025Perry Cohen, Pharm.D., a longtime member of the Managed Healthcare Executive editorial advisory board, is host of the Conversations with Perry and Friends podcast. His guest this episode is John Baackes, the former CEO of L.A. Care Health Plan.
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Breaking Down Health Plans, HSAs, AI With Paul Fronstin of EBRI
November 19th 2024Featured in this latest episode of Tuning In to the C-Suite podcast is Paul Fronstin, director of health benefits research at EBRI, who shed light on the evolving landscape of health benefits with editors of Managed Healthcare Executive.
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Survey: What Patients and Providers Are Thinking About Healthcare Access
April 28th 2025Patients and providers found common ground on the importance of correct billing estimates but did not see eye to eye in terms of digital scheduling tool use, according to a new survey by Experian Health.
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