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Quality Care at Lower Cost

Tangible programs and services that increase employee productivity, retention and satisfaction.

Policy Expertise

Provide a voice and influencing laws to benefit employers, purchasers and consumers.

Peer-to-Peer Networking

Leading corporations sharing best practices, new solutions and insights into where markets are going.

Personalized Consulting

Access to expertise, tools and resources that help you work smarter and save your organization money.

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PBGH brings all kinds of cutting-edge information and programs that have been absolutely instrumental for Walmart and other employers in lowering our health care costs.”

Lisa Woods
Vice President, Physical and Emotional Wellbeing
Walmart

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Our membership in PBGH is a great way to partner with other large employers to influence and push the health care system toward greater efficiency and lower cost.”

Teresa Wolownik
Senior Director of Global Benefits and
Executive Compensation, Qualcomm

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Membership in PBGH has immediately proven to be of high value for King County. We have access to some of the country’s foremost subject matter experts and other leading purchasers, enabling us to tap into a range of cutting edge solutions and insights to support our efforts around PBM contracting, ideas for analytics using our data warehouse and other critically important initiatives.”

Michele Ritala
Benefits Strategic Planner
King County, WA

Supporting Non-Hospital Birthing Options: Employer Strategies to Improve Quality

Faced with unacceptable results, employers are looking for pathways to improve maternal health care quality, affordability and the overall patient experience.

Advice from a Purchaser Who Took on Health Care’s Status Quo and Won

Dig into the data. Read the fine print. Follow the money. That’s Marilyn Bartlett’s advice to employers and purchasers struggling to contain soaring health care costs and looking to gain greater transparency from plans, third-party administrators (TPAs), pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and brokers.

What the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Will Mean for Employers

The current COVID-19 public health emergency declaration has now been in place for more than two years – since January 2020. While a new wave could cause its extension, it will most likely end this summer.

Events and Training

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Substance Use Disorder Vendor Showcase

The Substance Use Disorder Vendor Showcase is an opportunity to interact with other employers and carefully curated SUD vendors.

Managing Obesity Risk: The Weight Epidemic Can’t Wait

Join PBGH and the Integrated Benefits Institute for a webinar series on obesity and weight management.

CQC Webinar – Behavioral Health Integration: Telehealth Promising Practices

Hear on-the-ground lessons around behavioral health integration, and understand opportunities around effective virtual care.

Primary Care Payment Reform Summit: Implementation, Learning and Action

This Summit will focus on implementing the PBGH Common Purchasing Agreement and other payment reform measures.

Member Benefits

We are a purchaser-only coalition of the country’s largest and most influential private employers and public purchasers working to create the health care system organizations are proud to offer American workers. We harness the clout and concentrated power of our members to deliver impressive results rarely seen in the health care market, including avoided unnecessary procedures, reduced waste, payment reform and an overall reduction in total cost of care.

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PBGH Membership Delivers:

Quality Care at Lower Cost

Policy Expertise

Peer-to-Peer Networking

Personalized Consulting

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2022 PBGH Member Retreat

Supporting Non-Hospital Birthing Options: Employer Strategies to Improve Quality

Advice from a Purchaser Who Took on Health Care’s Status Quo and Won

What the End of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Will Mean for Employers

PBGH in the News

Hospitals Look to Raise Treatment Costs as Nurses’ Salaries Increase

How an Indiana pharmacist is teaming up with employers to fight the hidden hospital prices that drive up health care costs

The rise of health-related travel benefits