PBGH Advisory Services

Healthcare purchasing has never been more complex—or more scrutinized. New federal requirements, vendor conflicts of interest, and fiduciary lawsuits have raised the stakes for self-insured employers. Standard consultants aren’t always enough, especially when they’re also advising the carriers, TPAs and providers you’re negotiating against.

PBGH Advisory Services provides unconflicted strategic counsel to help you navigate high-stakes decisions, demonstrate fiduciary prudence, and optimize healthcare value—without the conflicts that compromise traditional benefits consultants.

PBGH member organizations receive access to actionable strategic guidance on a range of purchaser issues. PBGH Advisory Services steps in for consultation tailored to your specific needs with member-discount pricing.

What Makes Us Different:

• Independent by design: No commissions, referral fees, or misaligned incentives. We work exclusively for employers—not for plans, TPAs, or providers you’re negotiating against.
• 35+ years of employer advocacy: Pioneered direct contracting, Centers of Excellence, primary care transformation, and price transparency. Employers Centers of Excellence Network saved millions for Walmart, Lowe’s, and others.
• Practical, hands-on support: Targeted expertise tailored to your organization and decisions—not boilerplate templates.
• Transparent pricing: Mission-driven, conflict-free pricing.

What Advisory Services Can Do for You:

• Fiduciary Governance: Educate internal peers, build committee structures, document decision-making, train teams on CAA compliance, create defensible governance that withstands scrutiny.
• Transparency Data Analysis & Strategy: Leverage transparency data to identify overpayment, optimize value, validate consultant negotiations, and demonstrate fiduciary oversight.
• Vendor & Consultant Management: Run independent RFPs/RFIs, benchmark fees, review contracts, and hold vendors accountable with performance standards.
• Direct Contracting: Assess provider quality and value, negotiate competitive rates, and build Centers of Excellence, to deliver the best possible care to your workforce.
  Contract Review & Negotiation: Review and redline agreements, flag problematic terms, and support negotiations, thereby boosting your negotiating position at key moments.
• Strategic Planning & Guidance: Help evaluate benefits programs and data, set priorities, develop strategy roadmap, offer independent and/or ongoing advisory guidance and implementation oversight in coordination with employer’s existing consultants.

Why It Matters Now

Major employers face lawsuits alleging they failed to prudently manage healthcare spending. Many benefits consultants have conflicts that can make it harder to demonstrate this prudence. We give you what they can’t: expert strategic counsel with no conflicts, and no compromises.