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How high prescription drug rebates can derail pharmacy benefit plans

HealthPartners

It’s important for employers to understand how and why costly things like this happen and what to do to avoid them – especially when deciding how to design the right pharmacy benefit plan , negotiate a PBM contract and evaluate plan performance.

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To carve in or carve out? Finding the best pharmacy benefit plan for you

HealthPartners

What does it mean to carve in pharmacy? A pharmacy carve-in is when pharmacy benefits are folded in with your organization’s medical benefits. This integrated approach keeps everything together in one package that is coordinated by your primary medical health plan vendor. And we pass on all rebates to customers.