Listen in as Suzanne Delbanco connects with Alan Muney, MD, MHA, former Chief Medical Officer of Cigna, former CEO of Equity Healthcare, and current health care advisor to multiple venture equity firms. This interview is part of CPR’s current work to understand whether group purchasing efforts can secure better health care value for employer-purchasers.
Are you surprised to know that pharmacy costs are actually comparable to inpatient hospital spend? After all, pharmacy spend eats up 20 cents for every health care dollar a purchaser
Suzanne Delbanco checks in with Mike Stull, Chief Marketing Officer at Employers Health Coalition, to talk all things pharmacy. Listen in as Suzanne and Mike discuss what employers and health
Can states combat rising prescription drug costs? The rising costs of prescription drugs is a high priority for patients, providers, payers, and purchasers at the state and federal levels. Kaiser
CPR’s senior project and research manager, Roz Murray, calls Jaime King, Associate Dean and Faculty Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Science, Law and Health Policy, to learn about
Why is it so important that employers pay close attention to their formularies? Emily Roesing calls Lauren Vela, Senior Director of Member Value at the Pacific Business Group on Health,
When Suzanne Delbanco called Dana Goldman, Director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California, she learned about what leads to waste in
We spend a lot of time at CPR thinking about rising pharmacy prices. Today, let’s look specifically at cancer drugs. According to the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), new
With the increasing cost of prescription drugs seeming never-ending, Suzanne waned to check in with the polling expert, Mollyann Brodie, Senior Vice President for Executive Operations at the Kaiser Family Foundation, to
Last week, CPR explored the impact that health care prices have on health care costs—particularly in markets with less competition among hospitals and health systems. This week, we will explore
Suzanne asks Dr. Kavita Patel, a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a practicing primary care physician, the toughest questions about rising pharmacy prices. What’s behind the increase? Why
