A game-changer for employers looking to cut costs and gain control With healthcare costs continuing to rise, employers are seeking new ways to rein in spending without sacrificing the quality of benefits. This partnership enables Healthee clients to optimize prescription drug management, reducing costs through preferable generic drug pricing, high-touch
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
Thanksgiving has arrived once again and this week, the Northwind Family feels particularly grateful for the employers, unions, primary care providers, advisors, and patients, who give us the opportunity to work with them every day. The pharmacy and health benefits world is full of options and we feel very blessed
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Alexander Hamilton The Power of a Point of View What shapes how we see the world? Our knowledge of it. Our assumptions. Our experience. These things frame our point of view. They encompass the span of reality as we see
Self-funded plan sponsors face a critical stewardship decision around member demand for highly effective, and costly, anti-obesity medications. To cover or not to cover? The effectiveness of the medications makes the decision more complex as it highlights the role and the responsibility of the plan to be a good steward
INDIANAPOLIS, April 28, 2023 – Northwind has announced the acquisition of QVI Risk Solutions, a health benefit administrator based in Bend, Oregon. “The self-funded employers, unions, advisors, and healthcare providers, with whom we work, feel that the economic and experiential value of healthcare has become disordered,” said Phillip Berry, CEO.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 16, 2023 – Northwind has announced the addition of John Singer to its strategic advisory board. “Healthcare is at an inflection point,” said Phillip Berry, CEO. “Rising costs, barriers to access, struggles with quality, and a general sense of frustration, are driving self-funded employers to engage innovators like
INDIANAPOLIS, February 22, 2023 – Northwind has announced the addition of Rod Reasen to its strategic advisory board. “Healthcare is at an inflection point,” said Phillip Berry, CEO. “Rising costs, barriers to access, struggles with quality, and a general sense of frustration, are driving self-funded employers to engage innovators like
INDIANAPOLIS, February 21, 2023 – Northwind has announced the addition of Jerry Ford to its strategic advisory board. “Healthcare is at an inflection point,” said Phillip Berry, CEO. “Rising costs, barriers to access, struggles with quality, and a general sense of frustration, are driving self-funded employers to engage innovators like
“MAYFIELD, Ky., Dec 11, 2021 (Reuters) – At least 100 people were feared dead in Kentucky after a swarm of tornadoes tore a 200-mile path through the U.S. Midwest and South, demolishing homes, levelling businesses and setting off a scramble to find survivors beneath the rubble, officials said Saturday.” After
