New Cost Containment Programs

  • Reducing rapidly evolving healthcare costs requires continuous innovation.
  • Last year, we welcomed three new partners:
    • Healthcare Bluebook
    • SmartMatch Insurance [Re-Imagined]
    • ProgenyHealth

Quantum Health Enhancements

  • Without guidance, healthcare is costly and complex. While Quantum’s care coordination services are typically reserved for employers with >1,000 employees, Pareto members benefit from exclusive, negotiated access to their best-in-class navigation platform.
  • In 2020, we assumed lead responsibility for simplified Quantum administration and billing. The result? One consistent price across all employer groups.
  • A strong finish to Q4:
    • Between 10/1/20 and 1/1/21, we brought 61 new accounts onto Quantum. This equates to another 10,000 enrolled employees—bringing our total count to 85 employers and 15,000 employee lives.

Pareto-Specific Formularies

  • How do we steer the right people, to the right drugs, in the right dosages? By leveraging best practice plan design and curating a smaller universe of appropriately priced drugs.
  • To curtail unnecessary spending on expensive drugs with low clinical value, we introduced Pareto-specific formularies. Coverage parameters are driven by philosophy/comfort level:
    • Low control: Few restrictions and exclusions; many drugs are covered
    • Medium control: More restrictions and exclusions; 5% additional average savings
    • High control: Most restrictions and exclusions; 10% additional savings on average

Specialty Rx Carve-Out

  • Our new specialty carve-out solution through Archimedes Rx solves three problems:
    • Climbing specialty Rx costs are too clinically and financially complex to be managed at the traditional pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) level
    • Traditional PBMs have little incentive to tackle specialty Rx
    • As an employer, you have insufficient data at your disposal to effectively hold PBMs accountable
  • As an independent PBM partner, Archimedes offers a seamless solution that integrates:
    • Clinical oversight
    • Alternative funding
    • Bolt-on programs (with a SmithRx and Magellan Rx benefit)

Third-Party Administrator (TPA) Placemats

  • We rolled out partnerships with our first round of core TPAs to:
    • Streamline superior plan design
    • Integrate disparate pieces that should all work in tandem
    • Reduce the burden of choice for you