End of COVID Bump, Negative News May Have Dented PBM Satisfaction

  • Nov 22, 2022

    Plan sponsors are reporting less satisfaction with their PBMs than they have in prior years, according to a recent survey. While industry experts differ regarding what may be driving that trend, they also have plenty of ideas about what PBMs — or failing that, their regulators — can do to improve how the industry performs.  

    The 2022 Pharmacy Benefit Manager Customer Satisfaction Report is the 25th annual version produced by the Pharmaceutical Strategies Group (PSG), an EPIC Health LLC subsidiary. In an Oct. 19 press release unveiling the findings, the organization wrote that “there was a notable downturn in overall satisfaction levels” with PBMs in this year’s survey, “as well as in some core measures of general satisfaction such as likelihood to recommend.” Measured on a scale of one to 10, plan sponsors’ overall satisfaction with PBMs was 7.8 in 2022, down from 8.2 last year — and at the lowest level it has been since 2016. 

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  • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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