Monthly Archives: November 2009

Now, more than ever, plan sponsors should look to evaluate their pharmacy benefit manager’s performance. Plan sponsors go through the time and expense to try and maintain a competitive vendor contract. Here’s the drill: decide that you want to solicit new bids from vendors who want to compete for your pharmacy benefit management business; go […]

Reviewing pharmacy benefit management (“PBM”) contracts has become just as much art as science. Sure, you can create a checklist of contractual definitions and provisions, and you can negotiate the financial and legal issues, but sometimes it boils down to how much does the vendor really want your business? That’s where the “art” comes into play. The […]

Controlling healthcare costs has never seemed so far away, yet so near at hand. Politicians tell us we need to insure more people, invest in technology and launch new prevention services in order to reel in costs, despite any empirical evidence that it’s true.  In fact, several studies have shown the opposite effect, where these techniques […]