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Health plans are in a unique time of change and have the opportunity to be seen as partners for success with employers and providers. Here are a few key healthcare trends that health plans should watch in the coming months

When we talk about how building the primary care workforce, we usually focus on physicians. But Greater Good Health is taking a different approach by leveraging nurse practitioners. The company recently launched a leadership program for nurse practitioners to learn clinical and communication skills from one another.

More than 31% of people with employer-sponsored insurance stuck with a job they disliked for the company’s health insurance, a Forbes Advisor survey found. Another 8% of respondents left a job they liked to seek better coverage.

Medical device company Contraline became the first to implant a hydrogel-based male contraceptive gel into humans in a clinical trial. Implanted during a noninvasive 10-minute office procedure, the gel promises to block the flow of sperm to the vas deferens. If proven safe and effective, it could become the first nonhormonal, reversible contraceptive for men on the market.

Innovation hub and startup engagement models in the life sciences can take one of a few flavors with equity investments, commercial partnerships and accelerator programs covering most of the cases.

Requiring that PBMs bid on a per member per month guarantee would reduce the employer’s uncertainty by securing the actual per member per month cost to the employer.

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Juvena Therapeutics is developing secreted protein drugs built on new knowledge gleaned from proprietary technology that maps these proteins and the tissues in the body where they offer a regenerative effect. The startup’s lead program is in development for the muscle disorder myotonic dystrophy type 1.

Following an investigation, the AG claimed Express Scripts, “billed and obtained payment for prescription drugs from payers of workers' compensation claims in excess of amounts permitted by Massachusetts laws and regulations,” according to court documents. 

The main factor behind why women want over-the-counter birth control pills is convenience, the survey found. Of those who are unlikely to use over-the-counter birth control pills — or are unsure if they would —most said it's because they don’t currently use birth control pills or don’t plan to in the future.