“Regulations do have their role. They’re very important to assuring patient safety and quality and for program integrity, but there’s a fine line between being helpful and being a hindrance,” – Seema Verma, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services That quote captures CMS’s current sentiment. The agency is striving to reduce overly […]
The accelerating tech landscape has made it difficult for consumer goods companies to keep their analytics systems competitive and determine how to prioritize new investments amidst a plethora of growing options. To help CG’s make smarter analytics development decisions, we sponsored CGT and RIS’s 2018 Retail and Consumer Goods Analytics Study in conjunction with our sponsorship […]
Dynamic market conditions are pushing consumer goods manufacturers to design more agile structures and capabilities in order to stay ahead of the game and fuel organic growth. One of the most effective methods manufacturers are adopting to foster agility is revenue management. While the concept of revenue management has been around a long time, it […]
We’ve seen Amazon transform retail through their ability to remove the layers of the standard business model and redefine how consumers shop for, pay for, order and receive products. Now, with slow-to-evolve brick and mortar retailers left in the dust and others still scrambling to compete, Amazon is setting its eyes on an all new […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires plans to monitor and conduct regular updates of their provider network data, including updating providers’ ability to accept new patients, as well as their office address, phone number and any other changes that affect availability. Medicare Advantage (MA) plans must contact providers every three months and […]
Kroger ran their annual “Game Day Greats” campaign, but this time, with all new prizes, omnichannel tactics, and manufacturer participation. With Kroger’s Game Day Greats Instant-Win Sweepstakes program, shoppers can instantly win up to 23 food product prizes considered to be part of the game day greats collection. Products from popular brands like Pepsi, Goldfish, […]
Marketing spending has traditionally represented nearly $225 billion in annual expenditures by CPG manufacturers – 19.5% of total sales. While this figure has remained relatively static for the past 10 years, in early 2018, three prominent Fortune 500 CPGs – Kraft Heinz, Unilever and PepsiCo, announced plans to dramatically increase marketing spend as a means […]
At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2018 in Las Vegas, UnitedHealthcare demonstrated some of their latest digital health innovations, each designed to help simplify the consumer health care experience of Employer-Sponsored (Group) insurance plans. Three of the core innovations, soon to re-define the way millions of their enrollees select, enroll and use their healthcare, […]
Connecture, in partnership with Deft Research, conducted a webinar last week that took a deep dive into Medicare AEP in order to understand how shopping and switching behaviors are changing among Age-Ins and how payers can most effectively adapt in order to improve new member acquisition. Leveraging national data from Deft Research’s 2017 and soon […]
Kroger is the largest U.S. grocer and second largest U.S. retailer, but with enormous presence, comes enormous responsibility to drive the future of grocery. Fortunately, the mass supermarket chain is not disappointing, in fact, they’re exceeding on many accounts. In October of last year, they announced their “Restock Kroger Plan,” and while it’s only January, […]