Season 2 of the MedCity Pivot Podcast has launched with a particular concentrate on the evolution of phamacy and pharmacy profit administration. The primary visitor this season is A.J. Loiacono, who leads Capital Rx, a more moderen technology of PBM that’s tech enabled and pushed by a purpose to be clear and never have hidden prices and costs.
Loiacono has been fiery and eloquent up to now, even calling the actions of the heavyweights of the PBM worlds — CVS Well being Caremark, Unitedhealth Optum and Cigna Categorical Scripts — neither sustainable nor moral. On this episode, although, there was much less fireplace and brimstone although he did acknowledge that they’ve conflicts of curiosity.
Capital Rx has discovered buyers in each conventional PBMs like Prime Therapeutics and even giant well being methods, so it appeared solely becoming to take a seat down with Loiacono to speak how the world of pharmacies and PBMs are evolving.