Armed With Transparency Data, Purchaser Groups Focus on Rising Prices

  • Sep 16, 2022

    Amid growing medical cost trend and broad fears of inflation, two major purchaser groups have unveiled initiatives to coordinate plan sponsors in an effort to lower health care prices. Managed care experts tell AIS Health, a division of MMIT, that purchasers’ frustration with high prices are valid, but they don’t expect prices to come down any time soon with inflation and other macroeconomic trends set to wash over the health care sector. 

    The National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions (NAHPC) recently released a “playbook” white paper for regional purchaser groups and employers seeking to rein in price increases. The term purchaser coalition refers to a number of regional nonprofits across the country that are composed of the region’s largest employers; those groups comprise NAHPC’s membership. NAHPC’s largest member, the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH), also rolled out a new plan to manage costs. 

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  • Peter Johnson

    Peter has worked as a journalist since 2011 and has covered health care since 2020. At AIS Health, Peter covers trends in finance, business and policy that affect the health insurance and pharma sectors. For Health Plan Weekly, he covers all aspects of the U.S. health insurance sector, including employer-sponsored insurance, Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage and the Affordable Care Act individual marketplaces. In Radar on Drug Benefits, Peter covers the operations of (and conflicts between) pharmacy benefit managers and pharmaceutical manufacturers, with a particular focus on pricing dynamics and market access. Before joining AIS Health, Peter covered transportation, public safety and local government for various outlets in Seattle, his hometown and current place of residence. He graduated with a B.A. from Colby College.

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