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PBGH Membership Delivers:

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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

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5 Lessons for Achieving High-Quality Virtual Care

A new report presents five lessons to support the long-term use of telehealth services as a tool to deliver high-quality virtual care.

8 Steps to Implementing Advanced Primary Care

Despite these outsized benefits, misaligned financial incentives, chronic under-investment, infrastructure barriers and a lack of integration with other elements of care continue to severely constrain primary care’s impact on the health of American workers and families.

PBGH Announces Five-Year Plan, Goals to Reduce and Reallocate Health Care Spending in Push for Higher Value Care for its Members

PBGH announced a series of strategic goals that will guide the organization over the next five years.

California Providers and Health Plans Sign Agreement to Expand Investment and Increase Access to Advanced Primary Care

As part of a new multi-stakeholder initiative, six health care organizations serving California have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to increase investment in and access to ‘advanced primary care.’

Events and Training

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CQC Webinar – CalHIVE Network: Lessons for Achieving High-Quality Virtual Care

Join us for a webinar where we will share the outcomes of the CalHIVE Network, a two-year improvement collaborative to improve care for people with diabetes and asthma by maximizing the use of virtual care tools.

CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration Improvement Collaborative Informational Webinar

Join this webinar to learn about our upcoming technical assistance program, the CalHIVE Behavioral Health Integration Improvement Collaborative, and how to participate.

December 2022 PBGH Member Forum with Mark Cuban

Join us on Wednesday, December 7 for PBGH’s Member Forum with Mark Cuban in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Primary Care Payment Reform Implementation Summit

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.