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More Employers Cover Weight-Loss Drugs: Survey

InterWest Insurance Services

The percentage of employers who are covering new and trendy weight-loss drugs has risen in 2024, continuing a trend of increasing coverage despite the costs, according to a new survey. And, as costs continue rising on average 5.25% in 2024, employers are taking a number of steps to manage costs. after rising 8.3% the year prior.

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Group Health Plan Trends for 2025

InterWest Insurance Services

Group Health Plan Trends for 2025 As health insurance costs continue to rise at an uncomfortable pace, employers in 2025 plan to shake up the status quo with their health care vendors, particularly those focused on reducing pharmacy spend, a main cost driver, according to a new report. GLP-1s loom large.

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Top 10 Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) Companies in 2023

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Pierpoint Pierpoint specializes in recruitment process outsourcing for the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. By harnessing the power of AI and automation, they streamline the recruitment process, enabling clients to identify, engage, and hire candidates more efficiently.

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Employers Wrestling with Covering Weight-Loss Drugs

InterWest Insurance Services

These groundbreaking drugs — the most popular sold under the brand names Mounjaro, Ozempic and Wegovy — are partly to blame for overall pharmaceutical benefit costs jumping 8.3% Employers and insurers are now faced with the prospect of exploding drug costs if demand continues to boom and doctors write more prescriptions for them.

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Cardinal Health

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Cardinal Health is a healthcare services and products company that provides medical and surgical products, pharmaceuticals, and services to hospitals, health systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories, and physician offices worldwide. The company operates through two segments: Medical and Pharmaceutical.

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PepsiCo and Pfizer named Top UK Employers 2023

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Food and drink manufacturer PepsiCo UK and pharmaceutical firm Pfizer UK have made the Top UK Employers list for 2023. The Top Employers Institute compiled the list by reviewing HR policies and people practices across organisations around the world, including 99 UK organisations. The 10 Top UK Employers for 2023 were: Abbott.

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More Employers Cover Weight-Loss Drugs: Survey

InterWest Insurance Services

The percentage of employers who are covering new and trendy weight-loss drugs has risen in 2024, continuing a trend of increasing coverage despite the costs, according to a new survey. And, as costs continue rising on average 5.25% in 2024, employers are taking a number of steps to manage costs. after rising 8.3% the year prior.