What the engagement involves
This is a one-off research participation, not ongoing evaluation work. You complete a structured online survey of about 25 minutes covering how your organisation chooses a PBM, how contracts are negotiated and monitored, how formulary and rebate decisions get made, and how specialty pharmacy is arranged. Questions are a mix of closed-form (deal structures, pricing models, committee composition, contract cycles) and short written responses where the research team wants your reasoning, not a policy statement. The output feeds into an AI research lab's work on tools for pharmacy benefit management, so specificity about how decisions actually get made in your plan is the whole value of the submission.
What the platform screens for
Mercor's screen is mostly about eligibility rather than skill. It confirms three things: the type of organisation you work for, your actual role in PBM decisions, and that you are US-based. The organisational boundary is enforced strictly — health plans, health insurers, provider-sponsored plans owned by a health system, and TPAs that make their own PBM decisions qualify. PBM employees, benefits consultants, brokers, advisors, employers, and hospitals or systems without their own health plan are explicitly excluded, and vague answers about who employs you tend to end the screen. Expect follow-ups on where you sit relative to the decision: final decision-maker, selection committee member, strong influencer, or day-to-day manager of the PBM relationship all count, but "I'm generally aware of it" does not.
Logistics
- Remote, United States only, fully asynchronous
- One sitting of roughly 25 minutes; no interviews, no scheduled calls
- $100 observed as the one-time payment, paid after the submission passes verification — not guaranteed, and incomplete or contradictory submissions can fail review
- A submission deadline is given; late responses are typically not compensated
- Completed independently — you cannot delegate it to an analyst or fill it in as a committee