Jan 25, 2024

Vegans and vegetarians who can’t stand each other. Fantasy football leagues with bitter internal schisms. Branches of the same religion at war with one another. Stacey Richter uses these examples to introduce “the narcissism of small differences” — the psychological tendency for people who are mostly aligned to...

Jan 18, 2024

Not all hospital chains are the same, but today’s conversation is about the big, rich, consolidated ones with the market and political power to shape entire regional economies. Peter Hayes, the recently retired president and CEO of the Healthcare Purchaser Alliance of Maine, joins Stacey Richter to lay out five...

Jan 11, 2024

Copay maximizer programs started as pharma’s workaround to PBM formulary leverage — cover the patient’s out-of-pocket cost so a drug stays viable even when the PBM won’t put it on formulary. But per Joey Dizenhouse, FSA, MAAA, CEO of SlateRx, that original chess move has since spawned an entire industry of...

Jan 4, 2024

What would you do if you owned an independent pharmacy and discovered that nearly all of your profit came from just 10% of the prescriptions you fill — and that you’d actually make more money by firing most of your staff and refusing to fill the other 90%? That’s the math Benjamin Jolley, PharmD, a...