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Analyst Insight: Revolutionizing Manufacturing Performance – How Cornerstone Drives Productivity, Quality, and Efficiency in the Competitive Market

3Sixty Insights

Introduction Manufacturing companies excel at discovering and investing in performance efficiencies and process automation that increases production and guarantees quality.

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PBMs Feeling the Heat on All Fronts

InterWest Insurance Services

PBMs are intermediaries, acting as go-betweens for insurance companies, self-insured employers, drug manufacturers and pharmacies. Additionally, PBMs have been accused of pocketing the rebates that drug manufacturers offer, instead of passing them on to the end users: the patients who are prescribed the medications. ”

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FTC Report Strikes at the High Cost of Drugs

Workers' Compensation

The US Federal Trade Commission [FTC] report "Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug Costs and Squeezing Main Street Pharmacies" examines the influence of Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) in the pharmaceutical industry. PBMs act as middlemen managing prescription drug coverage for millions of Americans.

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PBMs Feeling the Heat on All Fronts

InterWest Insurance Services

PBMs are intermediaries, acting as go-betweens for insurance companies, self-insured employers, drug manufacturers and pharmacies. Additionally, PBMs have been accused of pocketing the rebates that drug manufacturers offer, instead of passing them on to the end users: the patients who are prescribed the medications. ”

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OSHA Cites Oakland NJ Company with $257,931 in Penalties

Workers' Compensation

Department of Labor inspection in June 2023 at an Oakland, NJ manufacturing company — that followed reports of two workers being injured — found employees exposed to dozens of serious safety and health hazards. The department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration opened its inspection at FB International Inc. 2024 Update In Press.

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New Approaches to Managing Health Care Costs, Improving Outcomes

InterWest Insurance Services

Many PBMs earn commissions on drugs dispensed to patients and they benefit from steering them to higher-cost drugs. Ask them how they earn their money, and what kind of commissions and margins they are earning on drugs dispensed to your employees. It’s best to take this approach with the assistance of us, your broker.

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Visit NeoCon, but Chicago has become a tale of two venues

Workplace Insight

And by Senator , with this sustainability presentation of the various materials they use in manufacturing their products. Designer Nathalie Van Reeth was commissioned by the long-established Belgian manufacturer, Bulo – back at the Mart after a break of many years – to help with the Senses range of workstations they were showing.