IngenioRx, Centene Contract Switch Take Spotlight in PBMs’ 3Q Earnings Calls

  • Nov 10, 2022

    Although Centene Corp.’s decision to contract with Cigna Corp. rather than CVS Health Corp. for PBM services loomed large during major health insurers’ third-quarter earnings conference calls, it wasn’t the only PBM-related discussion worth noting. 

    For example, during Elevance Health, Inc.’s earnings call on Oct. 19, executives offered some insights about how the firm’s in-house PBM IngenioRx is carving out a niche in the marketplace. 

    “We are, as you know, trying to be a different PBM,” Peter Haytaian, Elevance’s president of Diversified Business and IngenioRx, said in response to an analyst’s question about the PBM’s progress selling its services to self-insured employers that already contract with Elevance.  

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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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