EmsanaRx and Cleveland Clinic Collaborate to Bring Transparency to Pharmacy Benefits

LOUISVILLE, KY and CLEVELAND, OH – EmsanaRx, a public profit company, and Cleveland Clinic have introduced a first-of-its-kind strategic affiliation right this moment. This collaboration will align EmsanaRx with Cleveland Clinic to additional each organizations’ mission of offering cost-effective, high-quality care.

Cleveland Clinic will advise clinicians and multidisciplinary groups at EmsanaRx to assist the corporate’s formulary growth and utilization administration applications and inform a few of its profit choices. The well being system will present exterior perspective on the scientific worth of recent and current medicines, therapies and therapies, based mostly on its greatest practices for affected person care and experience within the newest applied sciences and improvements in healthcare.

This strategic affiliation creates alternatives to offer new therapies to sufferers, decrease prescription drug prices, and broaden scientific applications. Its targets embody delivering dependable info, and bettering high quality and affected person satisfaction to EmsanaRx’s giant employer purchasers and the lives they serve. EmsanaRx will guarantee members’ wants are met and drive scientific determination making.

“By means of this collaboration, we are able to enhance how successfully we serve our giant employer purchasers. Administration of pharmacy advantages is complicated. EmsanaRx supplies a greater member expertise with much less disruption and we are able to advance the business to learn our communities by working collectively on applications like this,” stated Greg Baker, co-founder and CEO of EmsanaRx. “This settlement permits us to stay true to our mission and imaginative and prescient by bringing a world class scientific experience to drive superior outcomes.”

As the one pharmacy profit supervisor (PBM) constructed by employers, EmsanaRx’s mission is to deliver readability, integrity and belief to pharmacy profit administration. EmsanaRx is dedicated to delivering a clinically targeted, clear and easy-to-use pharmacy profit expertise to its members.

“Cleveland Clinic is bringing to this affiliation a patients-first strategy to EmsanaRx in a time the place employers and people are more and more delicate to the rise in pharmacy spending. We prioritize transparency, high quality care and bettering the well being of each inhabitants and imagine this partnership will additional these efforts,” Bruce Rogen, M.D., chief medical officer, Cleveland Clinic Worker Well being Plan, commented.

EmsanaRx is the primary firm launched by Emsana Well being, an innovation studio created by the Purchaser Enterprise Group on Well being (PBGH) to sort out the most important issues going through employers right this moment. PBGH is a nonprofit coalition of practically 40 giant personal employers and public healthcare purchasers dedicated to remodeling healthcare nationwide.

“Our members instructed us they discover most pharmacy advantages applications to be opaque, more and more costly and of various scientific high quality. They requested us to give you a greater answer,” stated Elizabeth Mitchell, president and CEO of PBGH. “Massive employers are very desirous about EmsanaRx’s work to deliver pharmacy profit administration again consistent with the wants of their workers by providing higher flexibility and the flexibility to handle their drug spending. We imagine working with Cleveland Clinic may also help employers obtain this.”

EmsanaRx: Katie Marks, Katie@emsanaRx.com, 502.494.0122 

Cleveland Clinic: Katrina Healy, healyk@ccf.org, 216.386.0955