HealthScape Advisors, a leading payer advisory firm and a Chartis company, has acquired PayerAlly, an independent pharmacy consulting firm specializing in pharmacy benefit management strategy, procurement, and optimization. The acquisition enhances both firms’ ability to help health plans and progressive employers address rising prescription medication costs while advancing a more integrated, clinically informed, and member-centered total cost-of-care approach.
Founded in 2022, PayerAlly has rapidly emerged as an independent force in the pharmacy and medical drug cost management advisory space, delivering integrated procurement services spanning PBM, specialty pharmacy and infusion, and medical drug management, complemented by auditing, vendor performance management, and data-driven clinical and pharmacy strategy. PayerAlly leaders Will McHugh, Bill Guerci, and Kerri Tanner will continue to manage the business as PayerAlly, a division of HealthScape, maintaining its specialized focus while benefiting from expanded technological capabilities, scale, and continued investment.
Together, HealthScape and PayerAlly will offer a comprehensive suite of services spanning medical and pharmacy strategy, enabling clients to better manage high-cost drugs, optimize rebate and pricing strategies, and implement more effective PBM programs that balance affordability with innovation and access. The combination also creates new opportunities to develop advanced analytics, integrated data models, and technology-enabled tools to support next-generation payer strategies. Payers are under increasing pressure to manage rising pharmacy costs while simultaneously improving outcomes and member experience, a dynamic HealthScape said the combined organization is uniquely positioned to address.
HealthScape Advisors is part of Chartis, a healthcare advisory firm that works with more than 1,900 organizations annually and employs more than 1,450 professionals focused exclusively on healthcare strategy and transformation. The acquisition reflects growing demand for specialized advisory capabilities as pharmacy spend continues to be one of the fastest-growing and most complex areas of healthcare spending.
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“Payers are under increasing pressure to manage rising pharmacy costs while improving outcomes and member experience. PayerAlly brings deep, specialized expertise in PBM and specialty pharmacy strategy that complements our broader payer capabilities. Together, we can deliver more integrated, data-driven solutions that help clients improve affordability, enhance clinical value, and optimize total cost of care in a rapidly evolving healthcare marketplace.”
Dan Delaney, Managing Partner, HealthScape Advisors
“We built PayerAlly to deliver independent, high-impact consulting in a market that demands rigor and innovation, challenging the traditional siloed approach and helping clients address rising medication costs through an emphasis on total cost of care. Joining HealthScape enables us to accelerate that mission, combining our analytics and pharmacy expertise with their deep payer insight to develop more scalable, technology-enabled solutions that drive meaningful clinical, operational, and financial outcomes.”
Will McHugh, Co-Founder, PayerAlly
