PBGH in the News

Members of PBGH join other employers and healthcare purchasers to stop the unfair and harmful surprise billing that takes place due to no fault of patients accessing healthcare that they believe is in-network, or for which they have no choice.  Read more here .

PBGH joins together with Families USA and consumers, other purchasers, and family physicians to launch CONSUMERS F1RST to make healthcare high-quality and affordable for individuals and their families.   

In this new Forbes article PBGH’s CEO, Elizabeth Mitchell, comments on a newly released study illustrating wide variance between Medicare rates and what self-insured employers pay for hospital services. This important study shines a light on the substantial cost shift and challenges in our consolidated healthcare market.

The Pacific Business Group on Health and The Integrated Benefits Institute invite you to a daylong symposium on high-value innovations by large employers and key stakeholders to improve behavioral health care, access, employee experience and outcomes.  This employer-focused meeting will highlight best practices in worksite initiatives to enhance benefit design, onsite clinic-based services, EAP and absence management.

PBGH Members Walmart, Lowe’s and McKesson are featured in this Wall Street Journal article which highlights the success of PBGH’s Employer’s Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN).

Patients are experiencing more accurate diagnoses and better outcomes!

Congratulations to Walmart, featured in this Harvard Business Review article coauthored by Lisa Woods, for their groundbreaking work (with PBGH and HDP) to bring better healthcare to their associates and transform care delivery for all.

PBGH's Board Chair, Lisa Woods, discusses Walmart's work with PBGH's Employers Centers of Excellence program with Catalyst for Payment Reform's Suzanne Delbanco.

Listen to the CPR podcast here.

PBGH is leading the charge to promote and expand the use of nurse midwives in hospitals and physician practices. Midwives are attractive to women who want less intervention, respectful care, and more choice, and they can help reduce unnecessary C-sections and OBGYN burnout.

Read the article on NBC News here.

 

PBGH and Trucker Huss, together, shared “transparent thinking” on PBM management. This group discussion featured Mary Powell (Trucker Huss) and Lauren Vela (PBGH) who explored the following topics:

• How to understand and improve a PBM Contract
• The state of government regulation of the PBMs
• Point of sale rebates and copay accumulators: benefit designs with systematic impact
• Effective ways to decrease costs - tactics and case studies
• Policy news - explanation of some of the solutions being considered

Register here to download the slide deck.

NOTE:  The webinar begins at 4:00.  Please advance the recording to 4:00 to listen.

 

PBGH and The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit aiming to improve health care quality for consumers and purchasers, announced 17 California have been named to its 2018 national list of Top Hospitals.

Read the press release here.