Jun 3, 2025 | Alternative Reimbursement Strategies, Announcements, Client Report, Fair Market Pricing, Forensic claims review, MedBen Rx, MedBen WellLiving, Nutrigenomics, Pharmacogenomics
The 2025 MedBen Client Report is now available for download from MedBen.com! “As your TPA, MedBen takes an interest in your plan’s success that goes beyond claim processing,” Chairman & CEO Kurt Harden says in his Opening Note. “Our services and...
Feb 24, 2025 | Benefits preservation, Cost Savings, Drug costs, MedBen Rx, Rx Costs, Savings, Specialty Drugs
High-cost specialty drugs can make up more than 60% of a health plan’s pharmacy costs. MedBen Rx’s benefit preservation program is designed to make certain that members have continued access to medications while reducing specialty drug spend to the...
Feb 10, 2025 | Chronic conditions, Cost Savings, Drug costs, Flexible spending accounts (FSAs), Health care costs, MedBen Rx, Pharmacogenomics, Rx Costs, Savings
Now available through MedBen Rx, pharmacogenomic testing is transforming health care through safer and more effective personalized medicine. Determining how genes affect a person’s response to drugs not only improves patient outcomes, but it also helps control...
Jan 27, 2025 | Federal Trade Commission (FTC), MedBen Rx, News, Pharmacy Benefits Manager (PBM), Rx Costs, Specialty Drugs, Spread Pricing
Through specialty generic drug markups, three major pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) earned a collective $7.3 billion above estimated acquisition costs over a five-year period, according to an interim report released by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)....
Nov 21, 2024 | Bariatric surgery, GLP-1s, MedBen Rx, Wegovy, Weight loss, Weight loss drugs, Zepbound
Bariatric surgeries to treat obesity dropped 25.6% from 2022 to 2023, while prescriptions for GLP-1 drugs more than doubled during that period, according to a new study of privately insured Americans with obesity. However, those who opt for the surgery are seeing...
Nov 11, 2024 | Flexible spending accounts (FSAs), Genomics, MedBen Rx, Nutrigenomics, Pharmacogenomics
Genomic testing is revolutionizing precision medicine, offering unprecedented insights into how your body interacts with medications and nutrients. MedBen Rx offers pharmacogenomic and nutrigenomic tests that can help optimize your employees’ health care and...
