Spending on Cancer Medications Expected to reach $187B by 2028. What can employers do about it?
Important numbers to know for the next 5 years. You’ve likely seen the advertisements for the cancer drugs Keytruda & Opdivo. Drugs like...
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Christine Johnston
Jun 132 min read
Expect More From…Industry Trend Reports!
In the good ole’ days, every PBM used to release a trend report, which allows us, industry nerds, to understand historical trends and...
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Kelly Prymicz
Jun 62 min read
Expect More From…Real World Evidence (RWE)!
Want to improve your members’ health while improving our global health equity? Need to achieve these lofty goals while balancing a plan...
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Christine Johnston
May 153 min read
Expect More From… Prior Authorizations!
Prior Authorizations, you either love them or hate them. Regardless of your personal feelings on them, prior authorizations have been a...
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Kelly Prymicz
May 102 min read
Expect More from... Clinical Trial Disclosures!
Doctors Without Borders caught my attention for a surprisingly new call to action. I, like many others, may have expected the storyline...
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Christine Johnston
May 24 min read
Expect More From... Weight Loss Coverage!
We have an interesting dynamic going on in our industry. When it comes to the usage of GLP-1 for weight loss, it seems that people want...
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Kelly Prymicz
Apr 253 min read
Expect More From... Drug Trial Recruitment!
Feeling unsure how to model and predict one of the hottest growing drug segments, Neurology? You are not alone. The main condition of...
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Christine Johnston
Apr 183 min read
Expect More From... Preventive Drug Coverage!
To many employers adding coverage of preventive drugs seems like an easy decision, but as fiduciary obligations need to in the forefront...
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Zoek Website Redesign
Apr 113 min read
Expect More From... Support of Head of Benefits!
Can you name the most powerful position in healthcare that touches 60% of Americans? Numerous clinical and supportive healthcare...
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Christine Johnston
Apr 43 min read
Expect More From... Advocacy!
Many of you have seen my LinkedIn post about my son’s lobbying trip to Washington, DC. I am so proud of his fearlessness to advocate...
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Zoek Website Redesign
Mar 285 min read
Expect More From... Cancer Care!
Now is a critical time to be your own healthcare advocate, especially when it comes to cancer care. Excitement is at fever pitch with...
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Christine Johnston
Mar 212 min read
Expect More From... Price Controls!
Our economy is founded on free market ideals, expecting the basic rules of supply and demand to control costs. As we have been...
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Zoek Website Redesign
Mar 143 min read
Expect More From... the Fair Market!
All of us are familiar with the devastating health stories can be heard daily from our national news sources to the neighbors we share in...
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Christine Johnston
Mar 73 min read
Expect More From... Drug Pricing Transparency!
This week we are going to tackle the fourth reason why drug costs are so high: the industry is fragmented and complicated. Due to the...
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Zoek Website Redesign
Feb 293 min read
Expect More From... ICER!
Why aren’t alarm bells ringing with the news of 2023 drug launch prices exceeding expectation? Is it because we have reset our...
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Christine Johnston
Feb 223 min read
Expect More From... Aligned Interests!
This week we are continuing our conversation as to why our drug prices are higher than other countries. One of the six primary reasons is...
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Zoek Website Redesign
Feb 153 min read
Expect More From... Drug Patents!
“..bipartisanship like this means that there’s either a “change that is desperately needed or you should be looking over the horizon for...
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Christine Johnston
Feb 83 min read
Expect More From... the Free Market!
Last week, RAND Corporation (International Prescription Drug Price Comparisons: Estimates Using 2022 Data | RAND) released a study that...
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Zoek Website Redesign
Feb 13 min read
Expect More From... Annual Reporting!
Are you lying awake in anticipation of (calendar) year-end reports? If so, is it a nightmare or dream come true? Depending on your...
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Christine Johnston
Jan 252 min read
Expect More From... Delegated Responsibilities!
This week I watched one of Eric Bricker’s videos about University Hospitals in Cleveland (Kelly's hometown). The video is about how...
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