New Rx Savings Strategies for Payers

WEBINAR: New Rx Savings Strategies for Payers

NOW AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND | DURATION: 1 hour

Hosted by:
Alicia Caramenico,
Senior Editor,
FierceHealthPayer

This Webinar will explore drug cost savings and strategies, as well as various benchmarks that health plans can use to determine reimbursement rates. Participants will learn how to establish transparent and balanced ways to address drug pricing challenges and meet the pharmacy benefit needs of their members.

Potential topics may include:

Best practices for drug inclusions and exclusions, member cost share and drug utilization reviews
Best practices for alternative drug option pricing strategies
Data analytics to better manage prescription drug costs
Key metrics for developing prescription plan designs and formulary designs
Legislation regarding increasing requirements for transparency - having a sound methodology for setting MAC prices

SPEAKERS:

Mark Ginestro

Principal, KPMG

Mark Ginestro is a Principal at KPMG and leads the Life Sciences Management Consulting Practice for the Western US. He has 20 years experience primarily focused on the pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare distribution industries and assisting his clients with business model development, strategy execution, and M&A

Mona Chitre,

VP of Pharmancy Management, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

Mona Chitre, PharmD, CGP is the Vice President of Pharmacy Management with Excellus BlueCross BlueShield.

Ed Pezalla M.D., MPH

National Medical Director for Pharmaceutical Policy and Strategy, Aetna

Edmund Pezalla, M.D., MPH, is Aetna's National Medical Director for Pharmaceutical Policy and Strategy. He is responsible for the integration of pharmacy policy and activities into Aetna’s overall strategy and operations. He also serves as the lead clinical spokesperson for Aetna in pharmacy related issues and represents Aetna on industry work groups and conferences.

Todd Grover

President & CEO, ChainDrugStore.net; Co-Founder, Glass Box Analytics

Todd Grover serves as the President and CEO of ChainDrugStore.net. He is also the co-founder of Glass Box Analytics and developer of Predictive Acquisition Cost (PAC), an estimate of the acquisition cost of a drug created from a multi-dimensional predictive analytics model. The PAC serves as a new drug-pricing standard for the pharmacy industry.

Trygve Anderson, R.Ph.

Vice President of Pharmacy Solutions for Elsevier

Trygve Anderson leads Elsevier's pharmacy solutions including drug compendia, Gold Standard Drug Database and reference tool, Clinical Pharmacology. Mr. Anderson brings 30 plus years of experience in healthcare automation with a primary focus on drug information and decisions support.

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