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How Northwind Eliminated $1.2M in Unnecessary Spend while Dramatically Improving Member Health for an 11,500-Member Self-Funded Employer

A large self-funded employer partnered with Northwind Health to deploy a high-touch, clinically-driven diabetes program — and the results speak for themselves. Over the course of the 2025 program year, the client saw clinical outcomes that most employers only read about — combined with financial results that justify every dollar

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Letter From a Pharmacist – On Pharmacy Closures

Pharmacists have a time-honored role as an integral contributor to the delivery of health care. From the earliest apothecaries to the retail stores of today, community pharmacists have provided guidance about health, wellness and medication therapy. Their expertise ranges from preventive care to the most advanced medications used in the

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The PBM Conflagration Marks the Beginning of Healthcare’s Center-of-Gravity Shift

Waiting for my turn to present at recent health system executive conference, I noticed that presentations before mine spent a significant amount of time lamenting “payers” and “reimbursements.” Strategies and solutions to address these challenges centered on cutting costs, pooling resources to increase negotiating leverage, lobbying, and aligning with larger

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Influencing Health Costs Through Insights, Innovation, and Trust

Healthcare Challenges We have come a long way. There are now many options for self-funded employers to influence healthcare costs and outcomes: advanced analytics, direct primary care, direct procedure contracting, rx stewardship, etc. However, I was recently reminded of how long a way we have to go when a client

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RxStewardship: W is for Webinar

Week 6 – R X S T E W A R D S H I P Moving Toward STRATEGIC RX STEWARDSHIP™ W is for Webinar Last month, in collaboration with the Wellness Council of Indiana, we kicked off our three-part webinar series entitled Strategic Rx Stewardship. We are now eagerly counting down

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RxStewardship: E is for Engagement

Week 5 – R X S T E W A R D S H I P Moving Toward STRATEGIC RX STEWARDSHIP™ E is for Engagement Health care terminology has always been interesting to me. Borborygmus (stomach growling) is one of my favorite unique sounding words that is just fun to say. Most

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RxStewardship: S is for Schools

Week 3 – R X S T E W A R D S H I P Moving Toward STRATEGIC RX STEWARDSHIP™ It is an honor to be able to write the blog post for this week as I come from a family of teachers. My wife, both parents, mother-in-law, grandmother

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Moving Toward Strategic Rx Stewardship

R X S T E W A R D S H I P Join us for a 14 week journey toward Strategic Rx Stewardship and Northwind’s approach to helping turn Rx spend into Rx investment. Each week, a new post will be shared reflecting the next letter on the way

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