Billion-Dollar Healthcare Cost Savings Through Innovation & Collaboration: Interview W/ Christin Deacon, Assistant Director Of Division Of Pension & Benefits, State Of NJ

2021-09-10

Credited with a *1.6 Billion-dollar savings* over a 3-year period, Christin Deacon, Assistant Director of the Division of Pension and Benefits for the State of New Jersey, certainly knows a thing or two about how to make an impact on medical pricing! Even more impressive is that the plans she handles cover more than 820,000 people on plans classified as Cadillac++. She says shifting costs to members isn’t an option, and she instead uses methods like a PBM reverse auction, and by shift...

Even more impressive is that the plans she handles cover more than 820,000 people on plans classified as Cadillac++.

She says shifting costs to members isn’t an option, and she instead uses methods like a PBM reverse auction, and by shifting the focus from discounted pricing to unit-price guarantees to move the needle.

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