THE BEST CARE IS INTEGRATED CARE
Our integrated model provides a total drug management approach across your medical and pharmacy benefits, aligning all of our priorities to help achieve the lowest net cost and improve the quality of care for your employees.
INTEGRATION STUDY
Integration drives employee health
Prime’s peer-reviewed study shows an average savings of $148 per member per year on medical costs, 7% lower odds of emergency room visits and 15% lower odds of hospitalization.1
BLUE AND PRIME
One best-in-class solution
By combining your medical and pharmacy benefits, you and your employees have the potential to realize significant health and savings benefits without sacrificing service. Together, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota and Prime are more than a medical and pharmacy benefit administrator. We are connected at every point of the care continuum. This allows us to all succeed together, driven by transparency and true integration.
We’re focused on three key pillars:
Total cost of care
Reduce costs and improve value by managing drugs across the medical and pharmacy benefit
Combined, actionable data
Bring together all your health data to improve health outcomes and drive savings for you and your employees
Seamless experience
Center solutions on people – both employers and their employees – to deliver easy, meaningful, personalized experiences
Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota and Blue Plus® are nonprofit independent licensees of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
Prime Therapeutics LLC is an independent company that provides pharmacy benefit management services for Blue Cross® and Blue Shield® of Minnesota.
¹ Lam S, Gleason PP, et.al.(2020). Medical costs and health care utilization among self-insured members with carve-in versus carve-out pharmacy benefits. J Manag Care Spec Pharm, 26(6),766-774. https://www.jmcp.org/doi/full/10.18553/jmcp.2020.19411