Pharmacy Benefits

Most recognize Average Wholesale Price (AWP) as the most widely used pricing index for pharmacy benefits contracts. Apex executive advisor Scott Long tells you why AWP is neither average or based on wholesale prices.

Your role as an employee benefits leader working with pharmacy benefits is not to shift costs to employees by raising deductibles, just changing copays or a PBM reprice.

Apex strategist Mark Goodpaster discusses pharmacy benefits and why employers shouldn’t skip over them when talking about benefits.

The team of Certified Pharmacy Benefits Specialists reviewed the employer’s pharmacy claims and pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) contract. Apex contract assessments include taking a deep look in to pharmacy benefit contractual terms.

Why does this designation matter and what can a CPBS do for you? CPBS professionals are trained far beyond just knowing the basics of pharmacy benefits.

The burden remains on benefit managers to deliver the best solutions to their employees – at the most affordable costs for their workforce.

Indiana employers are invited to join Apex and global pharmaceutical and health industry leaders for a pharmacy supply chain presentation.

As the new coalition of health advocacy organizations called EmployersRx ramps up its efforts to impact “lowering drug prices and promoting price transparency,” we’ll certainly be watching.

Responsible for managing employee benefits at your company? When was the last time you read through your pharmacy benefit management (PBM) contract?

Jim Harenberg, Apex Benefits COO, talks about two different ways you can structure your pharmacy benefits contract and become the best consumer possible. These two ways are the pass-through approach and the differential or “spread” based pricing approach.

Jim Harenberg, Apex Benefits COO, explains what a Pharmacy Contract Health Assessment is and the value it delivers in helping employers reduce Rx costs.

Apex Benefits VP of Strategic Solutions Jim Harenberg, Certified Pharmacy Benefits Specialist, and Director of Population Health Sarah Michaels, RN, will speak at the Twenty-Fifth Annual HR Indiana Conference in Indianapolis.