AJMC September 9, 2025
Pulse of the Purchaser 2025 survey results showed the use of transparent PBMs more than doubled in just 1 year, from 12% to 31%.
Employers across the US continue to view health care affordability as their most pressing benefits challenge, with drug prices, hospital prices, and high-cost claims topping the list of concerns for the fifth consecutive year.1
That is one of several takeaways from the Pulse of the Purchaser 2025 survey conducted by the National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, which collected 324 responses from private and public employers between July and August 2025.
The annual survey found that benefit leaders are increasingly turning to data access and transparent contracting models to regain leverage in a system that one...







