Introducing the Pharmacy Benefit Podcast

J.C. Scott: Hi, I'm J.C. Scott, president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association. We're a Washington DC based trade association representing pharmacy benefit managers, also known as PBMs. I'm excited to tell you about a new podcast that I'm hosting called the pharmacy benefit where we'll be talking about the latest trends, public policy developments, and political challenges impacting drug pricing in your healthcare. J.C. Scott: You may not be familiar with PBMs or perhaps what you do know has left you with questions. We're here to provide the answers and talk about the innovative work being done by PBMs to improve patient care and lower costs. On the pharmacy benefit, you'll listen to the nation's top thought leaders, policy experts, and political analysts on a wide variety of topics like how employers, unions, and others use PBMs to drive value for their members in the face of growing healthcare costs, insulin affordability, challenges for patients, and what PBMs are doing about it, advancements in gene therapy, biologics, other cutting edge therapies, and the patient benefits and cost challenges that come with them, how smart use of data and data communication can help connect patients, doctors, pharmacies, and payers to provide real time information and smooth the healthcare experience and much more. J.C. Scott: The Pharmacy Benefit Podcast will also analyze the latest news from inside the industry and give you what we hope will be a well-thought educated perspective on where things currently stand and where we think they're headed. As we begin 2020 with the presidential, congressional, and state elections coming up, you're going to hear a lot in the news about healthcare, drug pricing, and the pharmaceutical industry and how PBMs fit into it. You're going to want to listen to the Pharmacy Benefit to get the whole picture, so please go to Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you're listening to this, and subscribe to the Pharmacy Benefit. Thanks for listening and I hope to speak to you again soon.