Employer Panel Stresses Specialty Drug Management, PBM Bidding

When benefits managers from a range of employers gathered at the Midwest Business Group on Health’s (MBGH) recent forum in Chicago, the final session of the day revealed that specialty drugs were some of their top concerns. And it appears employers are getting savvier about managing them.

A big focus of the conference was benefits managers’ fiduciary duty to their employees — and how shirking that duty could land them in hot water.

“If you haven't done a market check, do a market check,” recommended Dan Dentzer, manager of health and wellness design for United Airlines, at the June 26 MBGH Employer Forum on Pharmacy Benefits, Specialty and Biopharma Therapies. “I do market checks like I change my socks because you have to know what's going on out there. You have to know what others are doing. You have to know you're getting the best deal possible. If you haven't done that, please do.”