Phillip Berry

CEO
Phillip Berry is Founder and CEO of Northwind Pharmaceuticals. A graduate of Butler University, he has served on the board of advisors for the College of Business and is an active Butler alum.

Driven by a desire to transform businesses and communities through creative problem-solving, Phil leads the strategic vision of Northwind. His commitment to improving population health reaches beyond the workplace to creating positive health outcomes for underserved groups in his home town of Indianapolis and globally.

Phil has served as board Vice President for Gennesaret Free Clinics and as a member of the board of directors for Timmy Global Health. A graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program through Babson College, he went on to serve as a Business Advisor to that program and a mentor to other entrepreneurs.

Phil currently serves as a Board Member for the National Association of Worksite Health Centers.

An active blogger on healthcare and business topics, Phil has authored three books: Nexus of Care, Stones Across the River, and Every Day is Gameday.

Phil is based in Indianapolis and offices out of Northwind's headquarters at the former St. Bernadette’s Church and School.

Featured Articles

Northwind Earns Spot in Inc. Top 250 in Midwest

Phillip Berry | Mar 27th, 2020
  Inc. Magazine Unveils Its First-Ever List of the Midwest’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies— The Inc. 5000 Series: Midwest   Northwind Pharmaceuticals Ranks No. 208 on the inaugural 2020 Inc. 5000 Series: Midwest With Two-Year Revenue Growth of 108 Percent NEW YORK, March 25, 2020 – Inc. magazine today revealed that Northwind Pharmaceuticals is No. 208 … more »
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Coronavirus Silver Linings

Phillip Berry | Mar 12th, 2020
The headlines, closings, and feelings of panic cannot be ignored. Coronavirus (COVID-19) is here and its impact will be pressed upon us in the days, months, and even years ahead. We’ve all seen the warnings, predictions, and reactions. There are plenty of sources to get details on the why, the what, and the where of … more »
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Health Benefits: Trust + Innovation + Insights = Impact

Phillip Berry | Mar 4th, 2020
Healthcare Challenges Conversations at a health benefits symposium for self-funded employers this week reinforced the challenges facing companies dealing with increasing costs, confusing arrays of options, growing barriers to employee wellness, and a healthcare system mired in the purgatory between profit-dissipating government payers and a private pay market rapidly losing its appetite for offsetting those … more »
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Why Core Values Matter

Phillip Berry | Feb 21st, 2020
Core values, does anyone care anymore? Taken from the corporate playbook, core values seem to have gone the way of mission and vision statements: nice but meaningless. Relegated to dusty shelves holding the rest of our good intentions, core values seem to be just more marketing-speak meant to convince us of the reality we’d like to believe rather than the one we actually encounter on the street.
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Health Benefits: Death by PEPM

Phillip Berry | Sep 2nd, 2019
If the title of this post caught your eye, you are likely in the employee health benefits space. The crowded world of high costs, fuzzy measures, and a barrage of messages. A world daunting in its complexity. If you are an employer, you wrestle with this complexity as you seek to balance your sense of duty to your employees, the competitive nature of attracting talent, and your financial goals and obligations.
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PBM Has Become a Four Letter Word

Phillip Berry | Aug 17th, 2019
A Brief History PBM stands for Pharmacy Benefit Manager and was originally created out of health insurers efforts to manage prescription claims processing. As these third party administrators of prescription claims grew, they began to aggregate the purchasing of prescription drugs for patients across multiple payers. Then negotiated pricing directly with manufacturers and the distribution … more »
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