PBGH > Purchaser Business Group on Health

Creating the Health
Care System Employers
are Proud to Offer

PBGH operates as a change agent designing, implementing and spreading innovative programs and best practices to increase health care value for private employers and public purchasers.

Creating the Health
Care System Employers
are Proud to Offer

PBGH operates as a change agent designing, implementing and spreading innovative programs and best practices to increase health care value for private employers and public purchasers.

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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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.