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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

Featured

Strengthening Primary Care: A Pilot with Four Large Purchasers

Together with the Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA), PBGH brought together four large health care purchasers in California to pilot this set of performance measures that emphasize patient experience and outcomes.

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.

6 Things Every Employer Should Know About Their Pharmacy Benefit Manager

An industrywide lack of transparency, coupled with complex and often-confusing policies and contract terms, has opened the door to PBM profiteering.

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.

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.

Primary Care Payment Reform Implementation Summit

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

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.

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.