How Can Brokers Help Clients Address the Opioid Epidemic

Today's blog features a recently published Benefits Pro article that address the brokers role in the opioid epidemic. Jennifer Fuhrmann references a recent CDC report throughout her article that takes a closer look at various areas that are affected by opioid use. The problem continues to be undeniable. Benefits Pro lists out three primary solutions to this epidemic.

Find these solutions in the full article HERE!

Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings. 

FDA Approves New Tool For Sharing Information that Allows Doctors to Better Manage Medications

Today's blog features the new tool that the FDA just recently approved that will allow doctors to better manage antibiotic use. 

“Antimicrobial resistance remains one of our most pressing public health challenges. While we’re continuing our policy efforts to encourage the development of new drugs and limit the use of antibiotics in livestock, we also need to take new steps to encourage more appropriate use of these treatments in patient care,” said FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. 

Very interesting read. To read the full article, please click HERE!


Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings. 

FDA Approves New Drug to Treat Diabetes

Today's blog features the news that the FDA recently approved a new drug to treat diabetes. Admelog is the first short-acting "follow-on" insulin product to improve control in blood sugar levels in adults and pediatric patients.

“With today’s approval, we are providing an important short-acting insulin option for patients that meets our standards for safety and effectiveness,” said Mary T. Thanh Hai, M.D., deputy director of the Office of New Drug Evaluation II in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

To learn more about this new drug please read the full article HERE!

Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings. 

Reducing Medication Errors in The Hospital: What's the Best Way?

Today's blog features an important conversation brought up by Pharmacy Times that highlights the importance of finding a solution to reducing medication errors in the hospital. At the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) Midyear Clinical Meeting, different options were discussed to help fight this issue. These options included creating health systems that can work to reduce preventable errors by implementing medication safety programs that evaluate risk factors contributing to medication errors and then developing control practices to mitigate them. 

Laura Mark, PharmD, who is with Allegheny Health Network (AHN) remarks, "To ensure dosing administration accuracy, bar-code technology and the use of ready-to-dose formulations, such as premixed IV products, can be effective. Other medication management tips discussed this week included an electronic health record systems for prescriptions, a well-developed IV Pump Library for administration, and computerized physician order entry (CPOE), and technology assisted workflow (TAWF) systems." 

Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings. 

CVS and Aetna Seek Community-Based Care Model

Today's blog features the Modern Healthcare article that highlights the multi-billion deal with CVS and Aetna. The two companies are changing the course in which patients access healthcare in hopes of creating a new kind of model that's lower in cost and more convenient to the consumer.

"At the center of this strategy is what's commonly called the new front door to healthcare: the walk-in clinic, and CVS has nearly 10,000 of them. Late Sunday, Pharmacy chain and benefit manager CVS and insurer Aetna announced what would be the largest healthcare transaction to date, if approved by regulators and shareholders."

To read the full article, please click HERE!

Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings. 

Adoption of Value-Based Models Increasing, But Obstacles Remain

Marlene Satter of Benefits Pro writes that although value-based payments are on the rise, the way for a quick adoption still hasn't been made clear among family physician practices.

A study out of the American Academy of Family Physicians and Human Inc. found that while 54 percent of family physicians indicate their practices participate in value-based payment models and half believe value-based payment models will encourage greater collaboration between primary care physicians and specialists, there are still issues that must be resolved before broader acceptance occurs.

Need to know more? Read the full article HERE!

Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings. 

Market Makers Reveal Real 2018 Individual Health Rates

Allison Bell of Benefits Pro recently published an article that reveals how two large health insurance market makers say customers who have to pay the full cost of their individual major medical coverage themselves will face large increases in premium bills for 2018 coverage.

Bell continues, "For consumers who qualify to use Affordable Care Act advance premium tax credits, however, average increases in out-of-pocket spending may be under 10 percent."

To read the full article, please click HERE!  

Performance Pharmacy Solutions (PPS) is a unique pharmacy benefit procurement platform developed by HORIZON Health Ventures to efficiently and effectively place, manage and oversee our self-funded client's pharmacy benefit management programs. The PPS platform provides turnkey solutions with proven market-leading PBM partners that offer, on average, 10-15% savings.