The Pacific Business Group on Health

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For 31 years, the Purchaser Business Group on Health (PBGH) has helped the country's largest and most progressive employers/purchasers improve the quality of health care they offer and moderate health care cost increases. PBGH serves as a voice for large employers and purchasers, leveraging the clout of its member companies that collectively spend over $350 billion annually on health care services and provide coverage to 21 million Americans and their dependents.

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United States, California, San Francisco

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11-50

Founded date

1989

Mentions in press and media 15

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Apr 28, 2025	Altais Medical Group Receives PBGH Care Excellence Silver Award for Five Bay Area Practices	Among First Providers Recognized for High-Quality, Lower Cost Primary Care CA, UNITED STATES, April 28, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Altais Medical Group, part of Altais—a healthcare services company focused on transforming care delivery—anno...
Feb 6, 2024	What Primary Care’s “Barnes & Noble Moment” Means for the Future of Digital Health	Impossibly, it’s already been 25 years since Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks fell in love to the soundtrack of dial-up internet in the movie You’ve Got Mail. At the time, independent bookstores (“Shop Around the Corner” in the film) were under threa...
May 26, 2022	Pile-on over PBMs continues with FTC comments and a new bipartisan Senate bill	More than 500 stakeholders sent comments to the FTC on whether the commission should look further into pharma middlemen, known as PBMs, with many of the commenters calling for more federal oversight. Similar to the critic...
Jul 13, 2021	In reversal, employers, union groups push for Congress to allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices	The largest US unions, employer groups, and more than two dozen other group purchasers have long supported the push for market forces like generic drug and biosimilar competition to bring down the prices of drugs across the boa...
Sep 30, 2019	Insurers test new way to cut maternity care costs: Bundling	Feltz’s New Jersey-based practice, Lifeline Medical Associates, recently partnered with the insurer UnitedHealthcare to test a new payment model. The insurer sets a budget with the practice to pay doctors one lump sum for prenatal services,...
Feb 6, 2018	The Future of Clinics week 2	Employees on corporate welfare; Walgreens tests urgent care; Clinic just for infusions (Correction: Don Peterson is President of Infusion Express) JP Morgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway are joining forces to take a "fresh approach&qu...
May 11, 2015	How one hospital used data (and a little shame) to decrease C-Sections	“We were under intense scrutiny,” said Dr. Allyson Brooks, executive medical director of Hoag’s women’s health institute. The C-section rate at the time, in early 2012, was about 38 percent. That was higher than the state average of 33 perc...
Oct 10, 2013	Will travel for good outcomes: Walmart, Lowe’s offer employees no-cost joint replacements at 4 hospitals	Walmart and Lowe’s are no strangers to trying new approaches to reducing their healthcare costs. This time the two mega-employers having joined other companies and a non-profit coalition to provide financial incentive for employees to choos...
Jun 18, 2012	Insurance companies’ cost calculators shed more light on healthcare shopping	The healthcare shopping experience is largely like a black hole from which no light can come out. Now, however, insurance companies are making an effort to shed light in these dark places. They are providing more information on their websit...
	How one hospital used data (and a little shame) to decrease C-Sections	NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.— Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, one of the largest and most respected facilities in Orange County, needed to move quickly. A big insurer had warned that its maternity costs were too high and it might be cut from ...
	Insurance companies’ cost calculators shed more light on healthcare shopping	The healthcare shopping experience is largely like a black hole from which no light can come out. Now, however, insurance companies are making an effort to shed light in these dark places. They are providing more information on their websit...
	Amazon and other industry outsiders are betting they can transform healthcare. But an initiative by California health insurers may have a better chance.	Five California health insurers have committed to paying more for primary care. The Good Brigade/Getty Images This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Redeem now Five California he...
	Insurers test new way to cut maternity care costs: Bundling	The thrill of delivering newborns helped pull Dr. Jack Feltz into the field of obstetrics and gynecology. More than 30 years later, he still enjoys treating patients, he said. But now, Feltz is also working to change the way doctors are pai...
	Will travel for good outcomes: Walmart, Lowe’s offer employees no-cost joint replacements at 4 hospitals	Walmart and Lowe’s are no strangers to trying new approaches to reducing their healthcare costs. This time the two mega-employers having joined other companies and a non-profit coalition to provide financial incentive for employees to choos...

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FAQ about The Pacific Business Group on Health

When was The Pacific Business Group on Health founded?

The Pacific Business Group on Health was founded in 1989.

What has the press written about The Pacific Business Group on Health?

Parsers VC has collected 15 articles mentioning The Pacific Business Group on Health, among them “Altais Medical Group Receives PBGH Care Excellence Silver Award for Five Bay Area Practices” (Apr 28, 2025) and “What Primary Care’s “Barnes & Noble Moment” Means for the Future of Digital Health” (Feb 6, 2024).

Is The Pacific Business Group on Health still active?

Yes, The Pacific Business Group on Health is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 1, 2026.