CHG Healthcare and VIVIO Health Inc tackle the perfect storm of challenges when it comes to specialty pharmacy: out-of-control costs, lack of clinical evidence, and limited use of outcomes data.

Back in 2016, benefits staff at CHG Healthcare found a $174K charge in the monthly claims spend report. It wasn’t a mistake; it was the actual price for a specialty drug being used to treat a rare medical condition. Forecasting further costs without evidence of effectiveness, CHG Healthcare partnered with VIVIO Health Inc. to implement a specialty drug carve-out plan that covers both pharmacy and medical benefit drugs. Since 2017, CHG Healthcare has saved a net $4.4M through the program even with zero out-of-pocket costs for plan participants paying for specialty medications. Hear directly from Anne Hopkins, Director of Benefits and Wellness at CHG Healthcare, and Pramod John, CEO & Founder of VIVIO Health Inc., on how a focus on outcomes and individualized care can lead to savings.

This event is part of CPR’s Fall 2020 Webinar Series: Timely Topics with Innovative Purchasers.

Originally recorded on November 12, 2020.

For more insights on this topic, check out this event from our 2019 Policy Webinar Series: State Laws Addressing Pharmacy Prices, featuring Katie Gudiksen, Senior Health Policy Researcher at UC Hastings, discussing state laws addressing pharmacy prices and the utilization of these laws in driving higher-value in health care. In addition, find out how CHG Healthcare innovates in other ways by reading CPR’s case study Enhanced Access with Telehealth: CHG Healthcare, to learn about the telemedicine services program that CHG Healthcare implemented to address the health care needs of their traveling clinicians and corporate staff.

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