Webinar: Access to Specialty Medications & Value-based Insurance Design

Join the National Pharmaceutical Council for a webinar on September 29 from 1:00-2:00 pm ET. NBCH's CEO, Brian Klepper, will present on the webinar along with a panel of other leading health and benefits experts. Read the webinar announcement from NPC below and register online today.
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Specialty medications have been making health care headlines in recent months because of their effectiveness and higher costs. How can we ensure that patients will have access to the treatments that work best for them?

Join us for a webinar with a panel of leading health and benefits experts on Monday, September 29 at 1 pm ET. Our panel will discuss specialty medications and the use of tactics such as value-based insurance design (V-BID) by payers and purchasers as they develop their health care coverage options.

Speakers include:

• A. Mark Fendrick, MD, Director, University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
• Will Shrank, MD, Chief Scientific Officer and Chief Medical Officer, Provider Innovation and Analytics, CVS Caremark Corporation
• Brian Klepper, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, National Business Coalition on Health
• Moderator: Kimberly Westrich, MA, Director, Health Services Research, NPC

We’ll discuss:

• The current health care environment and challenges with specialty medications and health benefit designs;
• How V-BID could be utilized to address these challenges; and
• The view from employers and steps they are taking to manage employee health.

For additional background on this topic, check out:

• Supporting Access to Specialty Medications Through Value-Based Insurance Design
• V-BID Center Brief: Supporting Access to Specialty Medications Through Value-Based Insurance Design (PDF)
• Buxbaum J, de Souza J, Fendrick, AM. Using Clinically Nuanced Cost Sharing to Enhance Consumer Access to Specialty Medications. Am J Manag Care. 2014;20(6):e242-e244