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Employees should require four things from their benefits partners, he said:

Demand guaranteed, sustainable savings — not one-off incentives. "The moment demands transformational changes to your benefits spend, and that requires a contractual model that both optimizes your existing spend and delivers sustainable savings at that reduced level," Ganesh said.
Don't fall into the transparency trap. "Despite what you may have read, price transparency is not the cure for what ails the benefits marketplace," he said. "Transparent drug pricing won't bend the cost curve without a fundamentally different paradigm for attacking the problem."
Expect 100% financial alignment. "So-called solutions that singlemindedly focus on drug unit pricing are deeply misaligned with your organization's interests," Ganesh said. "By contrast, a value-based model prioritizes both financial and health outcomes and serves as the gold standard of what financial alignment looks like."
Reject the cost vs. access dichotomy. "Demand improved cost, broad access and enhanced care models, and demand value," he said. "Do not compromise on any of these points."

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