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Prescription drug costs are rising, and employers are feeling the pressure.

In this episode of The Moneyball Podcast, Scott Wham and Richard Lo, Director of Clinical Services, tackle the complex world of prescription drug pricing, pharmacy benefit management, and healthcare policy. With Richard’s background as a community pharmacist and Scott’s strategic insights, they explore how employers can navigate rising costs, ensure ethical practices, and prepare for future growth.

The “most anticipated recession in history” didn’t materialize in 2021, 2022, or 2023. Listen to two financial experts debate whether this year will be different.

Employers have had to deal with confusing and unpredictable economic conditions for nearly four consecutive years. Running a business is difficult enough in the best of times, but this type of long-term uncertainty makes it especially challenging for leaders to plan for the future and position their organizations for success. 

In the latest episode of OneDigital Debates, we re-visit our 2023 recession episode and ask two workforce strategists and financial gurus to unpack the current state of the American economy.  

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In part two of episode seven, Scott and Mason continue their discussion on value-based care in today's healthcare landscape. 

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In episode seven, Scott is joined by Mason Ellerbe, Lead Executive for High-Value Health, who brings 30 years of experience as a leader in the healthcare delivery system. With this perspective, Mason discusses how value-based care is changing the traditional fee-for-service model. 

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In episode six, Scott is joined by George Papagelis, National Practice Leader, Captive Solutions to discuss the benefits and risks of moving your company to self-funded and how OneDigital can help implement stop loss and Captive Solutions to mitigate those risks and save your business money.

Employers were not prepared for the sudden consumer-level debut of large language model (LLM) programs such as ChatGPT. As these types of products become increasingly popular, many corporations have opted for an outright ban on their use in the workplace. Others have adopted a more lenient philosophy and permitted their employees to tap into these programs in the hopes of realizing significant productivity gains. In this episode, we put two lawyers and compliance experts head-to-head to debate the finer points of these two disparate approaches.

Some of the big questions that our debaters tackle in this episode are listed below: 

• How do you respond to concerns about biases and inaccuracies in AI writing? Should all AI-generated materials need to be proofread by a human?  
• In the long run, is it practical for employers to regulate this type of tool?
• How do data privacy and security concerns fit into this conversation? Is it possible that AI programs could acquire and disseminate confidential employer information? 
• Even if these tools become exponentially better in the years ahead, are there some tasks that should absolutely never be replaced by AI? 

If you like this podcast, check out the previous episode of OneDigital Debates: Do Pay Transparency Policies Work?

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In episode five, Scott is joined by National Health and Wellbeing Practice Leader Shira Wilensky to talk about how a modernized population health management strategy can save employers money.

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In episode four, Scott is joined by Director of Analytics Cassandra Schlarb to discuss one of the most radical and effective ways that organizations can reign in health costs.

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In episode four, Scott is joined by Vice President of Retirement Adam Monson to discuss the many ways employers and employees can leverage non-qualified deferred compensation plans.

If you're like most employers, you're constantly making decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources. This is a difficult and high-stakes task that has only been made more important by rising costs, a down economy, and a red-hot labor market. OneDigital is here to help with the Moneyball Benefits Podcast.

In this series, Director of Compliance and Innovation Scott Wham takes inspiration from the "Moneyball" philosophy that revolutionized professional sports in the 2000s and applies it to the world of human capital management. In episode three, Scott is joined by Director of Clinical Services Richard Lo, who serves as the head of OneDigital's pharmacy team and an in-house expert on cost control mechanisms for employer-sponsored pharma plans.