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Pharmacy in Focus: Navigating GLP-1 demand, cost, and sustainability

With demand and utilization expanding, comprehensive clinical support and cost-management strategies are crucial to ensuring accessibility and safeguarding health care budgets.

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Pharmacy in Focus: Navigating GLP-1 demand, cost, and sustainability
March 25, 2025
With demand and utilization expanding, comprehensive clinical support and cost-management strategies are crucial to ensuring accessibility and safeguarding health care budgets.
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More cervical cancer screenings. More lives saved.
February 25, 2025
Improving access to regular cervical cancer screenings, especially for women in underserved communities, is key to reducing mortality rates.
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Respiratory illnesses are on the rise this season across the U.S.
February 20, 2025
Evernorth data shows fewer prescriptions have been filled for certain anti-viral medications than in previous years, but an uptick in January shows that respiratory illnesses are circulating in the U.S.
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Research finds that few women receive diagnoses of perimenopause or menopause
February 07, 2025
An Evernorth analysis found that more than half of women ages 40 through 64 had experienced symptoms related to perimenopause or menopause, yet only 8% of the women had received a confirmed diagnosis.
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Study: Cardiodiabesity prevention key to improving health outcomes and lowering costs
November 25, 2024
The Evernorth Research Institute analyzed aggregated and anonymized data of almost 5 million insured individuals to understand the prevalence of "cardiodiabesity" — a condition which encompasses cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and obesity.
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Study: Progression of cardiodiabesity increases care utilization and costs
November 25, 2024
The Evernorth Research Institute’s latest cardiodiabesity report helps illustrate sites of care where preventive interventions can make the greatest financial impact.

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At the Evernorth Research Institute, we analyze anonymized, patient-level clinical and administrative data, and industry data to unlock intelligence that prompts action—troubling trends and potential challenges that may affect your beneficiaries and your business, and what to do about them. Our work leverages large and robust data sets, enabling us produce intelligence that sparks change and health care innovation. 

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What does that transformation look like? For patients, it may be greater access and lower costs. For providers, it may be more transparency and greater collaboration across specialties. For plan sponsors, it may be reducing the administrative burden so many experience. Transformation isn’t easy, but at the Evernorth Research Institute, we believe it is possible when it is purposeful and rooted in research. 

Clinical Advisory Board

Unlocking insights and collaborating to turn those insights into action

Urvashi Patel, PhD

Vice President, Data + Analytics, Evernorth Research Institute

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Glen Stettin, MD

Sr. Vice President + Chief Innovation Officer, Evernorth

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Pooja Bhardwaja

Senior Medical Director, Evernorth Care Group

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Eric Gratias, MD, FAAP

Chief Medical Officer, EviCore

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Douglas Nemecek, MD, MBA

Chief Medical Officer, Behavioral Health, Evernorth

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Vontrelle Roundtree, MD, MPT

Associate Chief Medical Officer, MDLIVE

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Neema Stephens, MD

National Medical Director for Health Equity, Cigna Group

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Evernorth Research Institute in the News

Study: Antiviral meds prescribed at fast pace

Fierce Healthcare featured flu trend data from the Evernorth Research Institute along with insights from Urvashi Patel and Dr. Vontrelle Roundtree.

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