Navitus, Rightway and The Prism Health Group add transparent, employer-focused pharmacy solutions to MHPC’s vetted marketplace
CHICAGO – June 23, 2026 – Midwest Health Purchaser Collaborative is adding three pharmacy benefits-focused organizations to its employer purchasing marketplace. Given rising drug costs and new pharmacy benefit management (PBM) oversight requirements, plan sponsors must re-evaluate traditional arrangements. These new offerings provide faster access to alternative/transparent PBMs and pharmacy consulting options – critical in today’s environment with pharmacy now accounting for 27% of employers’ health care spending, up from 21% two years earlier.
The new partners include two alternative PBMs – Navitus and Rightway – with each model designed around transparency, contract flexibility and full pass-through pricing. The third partner, The Prism Health Group, is an independent pharmacy benefits consultant that helps employers evaluate contracting options, negotiate enforceable terms, and hold vendors accountable, with a focus on mid-sized employers (1,000 to 10,000).
MHPC is a non-profit employer purchasing organization and arm of the Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH).
“Employers are looking for pharmacy partners that can deliver lower costs through transparency, greater accountability and a superb member experience,” said Cheryl Larson, MBGH president and CEO and MHPC Board president. “By adding new PBM options and an independent consulting resource to MHPC’s marketplace, we are giving employers practical alternatives to traditional models and helping them move more quickly on one of their most urgent benefit priorities.”
Through these relationships, MHPC members have a running start to vetted solutions to reduce or eliminate the need to run a separate request for proposal (RFP) process for these service areas.
Navitus is the first and only fully open-book pharmacy benefit manager, setting the bar for transparency and low net cost solutions since 2003. Navitus offers pricing clarity, proactive clinical management, and hands-on guidance to drive sustainable cost control and improved care through flexible, client-centric solutions.
Rightway is transforming healthcare benefits with a member-first approach that combines expert clinical guidance, high-touch service, and intuitive technology. Serving over 4 million members, Rightway delivers personalized support that improves outcomes, boosts engagement, and lowers costs. As the only PBM with integrated pharmacy navigation, Rightway provides transparent pricing, aligned incentives, and measurable savings for employers.
The Prism Health Group focuses on making pharmacy benefits enforceable and transparent, ensuring that employers do not overpay and PBMs deliver on their promises. The organization designs tailored procurement processes that emphasize qualitative assessments before financial considerations, ensuring that clients receive the best value without hidden costs.
PBM reform efforts in 2026 have increased employer attention to pricing, rebates, data access and audit rights, reinforcing the demand for more accountable pharmacy arrangements.
Employer Forum on Pharmacy Benefits, Specialty Drugs & CGTs
On June 24, MBGH will host its annual Employer Forum on Pharmacy Benefits, Specialty Drugs & CGTs: Reshaping Pharmacy Benefits — Employer Strategies for PBM Transparency and High-Cost Therapies. The forum will examine strategies that prioritize transparency, accountability, data access and value-based purchasing to help employers and other health care purchasers manage escalating drug costs and strengthen oversight through better contracting. Learn more and register.
About Midwest Health Purchasers Collaborative
Founded by the Midwest Business Group on Health in 1980 as a taxable non-profit Illinois corporation, the Midwest Health Purchasers Collaborative (MHPC) is an independent entity with its own board of directors that annually identifies and manages strategic business partners to support employers and enhance the value of their health benefit dollars. Created to improve the quality, value, and delivery of health care delivered to employees, MHPC is working to make the health care system more accountable and responsive to the needs of health care purchasers and patients. To learn more, visit MBGH.org.
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