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“Wasteful Drugs” Cost Employers $6 Billion Annually

Sep 18, 2020 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Rebates, Rx Costs, Specialty Drugs, Transparency

Employers could save billion of dollars every year by avoiding “wasteful drugs,” according to BenefitsPro. Guidelines from Pacific Business Group on Health and and researchers from Johns Hopkins University identified 49 high-price medications with less...

MedBen Rx Advocate Continues to Save

Aug 7, 2020 | MedBen Rx, MedBen Rx Advocate, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription

Three-quarters of MedBen clients have switched to MedBen Rx Advocate for their pharmacy benefits. “And when they do, they are saving money,” said Brian Fargus, MedBen’s VP of Sales & Marketing. In 2019 MedBen Rx clients saved 12.0% average cost per script,...

Comparing Traditional and Pass-Thru PBM Contracts

Jun 27, 2020 | MedBen Rx, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Pharmacy Services Administrator (PSA)

As an agent or a plan administrator, it is important to understand how PBM contracts compare – “not just in terms of the numbers calculated for things like discounts and rebates, but also in terms of how they function and align (or fail to align) with your client’s...

The MedBen Rx Advocate Model: Pass-through Transparency, No Margin Manipulation

May 28, 2020 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, MedBen Rx Advocate, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Rx Costs, Savings, Transparency

A recent Benefits Pro article highlights two pharmacy benefits management (PBM) business models: traditional and pass-through. MedBen Rx Advocate begins with the pass-through approach but takes it one step further by eliminating margin manipulation. The traditional...

MedBen Rx Saves

May 17, 2020 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, MedBen Rx Advocate, MedBen Rx Alliance, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Prescription, Rx Costs, Savings

Three-quarters of MedBen clients use MedBen Rx prescription programs and are seeing the benefits first-hand. By utilizing our forward-thinking pharmacy solutions, these groups realized an average savings of 14.8% per employee per year, compared to those using other...

MedBen Conducts 14th Annual Municipality Roundtable Webinar

May 3, 2020 | Cost Savings, MedBen Rx, MedBen University, MedBen WellLiving, Municipalities, Reference-Based Pricing, Trend, Webinars

From 2015 to 2019, MedBen’s municipality block saw just a 2.7% trend on total claim costs. At the 14th Annual Municipality Roundtable Webinar on April 30, Vice President of Sales & Marketing Brian Fargus shared that municipality medical costs trended at 3.4%...
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