Alternatives to the top pharmacy benefits managers say they have fairer and more cost-effective business models for administering employers’ drug benefits, but the vertical integration and power of the largest health insurance companies and PBMs often put them on uneven footing.
Key Takeaways
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Vertical integration between health insurance companies and PBMs is leading to anticompetitive practices that make switching to alternative benefit managers unaffordable or impossible for self-funded employer health plans, the newer PBMs argue.
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The alternative PBMs are pushing for federal policy solutions, such as a ban on data integration fees among health care companies
Self-funded employers can be effectively prevented from working with an alternative PBM, such as Rightway, whose business model is not based on capturing big rebates on high
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