Jul 16, 2021 | Managed Care Friday
25: The number of retail pharmacies health system Intermountain is closing, citing declining business and a new deal with CVS Health. Intermountain will keep its pharmacy at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City open as a home delivery, retail, and specialty pharmacy. All others will transfer inventory and patient files over to CVS by August. Spartan Care: Michigan State University Health Care is partnering with Everside Health, a direct primary care provider, to provide employer-sponsored health plans with access to direct and virtual primary care across the state. Employers who...
Jul 13, 2021 | BRG Publications
In a poll of 52 health plan network contracting sources from the top 30 U.S. plans, BRG’s managed care team found that the likelihood of getting the same contract when acquiring a practice in a different city is difficult if the markets are unique but increases if the acquiring practice is in a value-based arrangement. Likelihood also varies based on factors related to individual physician specialties. Click to read more.
Jul 9, 2021 | Managed Care Friday
42: Percent of kids going off to college in August, according to a poll of my son’s 1,700 Instagram followers—up from 30% recently—who say they are bringing the following to college: a 10-pack of blue iPhone chargers, an old “beat up locker passed down from generations,” and the phone number and text for a mental health therapist. Here’s to something borrowed, something blue, and something new. Insulin? Aisle 12: Walmart is launching its own brand of insulin, a less expensive version of Novo Nordisk’s analog insulin product, Novolog. The insulin will be under Walmart’s private label and will...
