Value & Access Partner Spotlights

Spotlight presentations featuring information on Value & Access partner events & initiatives.

August 11, 2021 - Smarter Health Care Coalition and National Pharmaceutical Council

Building Better (Rx) Benefits
Kimberly Westrich
Vice President Health Services Research
National Pharmaceutical Council 


Smarter Health Care Coalition Update
Michael Budros
Policy Director

Smarter Health Care Coalition 


Materials
Webinar Recording 
Webinar Slides

 

June 9, 2021 - Mended Hearts & The FH Foundation

Advancing Innovation Through Clinical Trial Education  
Andrea Baer
Executive Director
Mended Hearts 


COVID-19 and the Increased Rate of Heart Attacks in People with Genetic High Cholesterol and Heart Disease
Kelly Myers, Chief Technology Officer
FH Foundation



Mary P. McGowan, MD
Chief Medical Officer
FH Foundation

Materials
Webinar Recording 
COVID-19 & FH Risk Factors Infographic

 

April 14, 2021 - WomenHeart and Cigna Healthcare

Value and Access at WomenHeart: An Update
Amy Freidrich-Karnik 
Vice President, Advocacy & Communications, WomenHeart


Gender Disparity in the Initiation and Compliance for Statin Therapy in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease
Michael B. Alexander, MD, MPH, FACC
Senior Medical Director, Cigna Healthcare
Clinical Performance and Quality
National Medical Director | Cardiology and Cardiovascular Diseases


Materials
Webinar Slides (Password protected – available to Value & Access members. Slides are not for distribution.)
WomenHeart Sister Match App
Gender Disparity in the Initiation and Compliance for Statin Therapy in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease

December 9, 2020 - Economic Impact of Health

     

 Economic Impact of Health
Margaret E. Guerin-Calvert
Senior Managing Director, President, Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy


Presentation
Webinar Slides

FTI Consulting’s Meg Guerin-Calvert identified key linkages between economic prosperity and health – improved health enhances economic conditions and resiliency and enhanced business and community activity supports health and quality of life.

Meg shared the Center’s extensive data-based research on medical, productivity, and opportunity costs of poor health and COVID-19 pandemic effects and the Center’s development of common relevant data measures at the local level to understand drivers, actions, and results for comparative and replicable initiatives. She reviewed successful collaborative actions to improve health, equity, and economic resiliency, and national leaders’ calls for multi-sector engagement especially on hypertension such as Surgeon General Jerome Adams’ The Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Control Hypertension Report. In summarizing the Center’s research, Meg noted that the COVID-19 pandemic offers lessons and new opportunities for meaningful engagement, investment and action by cross-sector collaboratives of business, healthcare, community, and public health leaders.

Key Highlights of This Presentation:

  • The COVID-19 pandemic exposes fundamental issues and fault lines of poor health and health disparities.
  • Poor health poses high costs and challenges economic vitality of businesses and cities.
  • Prevalence rates for diabetes, hypertension and other chronic conditions are high in most U.S. cities and often higher for communities of color; higher COVID-19 health risks and poorer outcomes are associated with these chronic condition risk factors.
  • Diabetes, hypertension and cardiac disease impose significant productivity and incremental medical costs that could be reduced with interventions to limit severity or progression.
  • FTI’s Center has developed extensive data-based research using extensive proprietary claims and public data and advanced analytics that provides common yet customized metrics of disease conditions and outcomes.
  • With the Center’s extensive experience on health and health equity, the Center is able to assist leaders to understand issues, drivers, priorities and best measures of health and economic well-being.
  • Productivity costs of poor health – time away from work, less productive employees, or turnover – are large and often unrecognized or not quantified for employers.
  • Multi-sector collaboratives are playing critical roles in effective COVID-19 responses and in improving health and economic benefit; the pandemic and national leaders’ calls for action on health heighten the urgency and opportunity for successful collaboration
  • Appropriate investments in public health and collaborative activity supported by actionable data and data-based research can yield substantial economic returns for communities.
June 10, 2020 - Joint Policy Statement on Expanding Access to Healthcare Every day and During the COVID-19 Response

John M. Clymer

Joint Policy Statement on Expanding Access to Healthcare Every Day and During the COVID-19 Response
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention


Materials
Joint Policy Statement

April 8, 2020 - National Forum for Heart Disease & Stoke Prevention & The Partnership to Advance Cardiovascular Health

John M. Clymer

Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) Recommendation on Tailored Pharmacy-Based Adherence Interventions
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention


Current Policy Landscape and Updates Related to COVID-19
Ryan Gough 
Executive Director


Presentation
Webinar Slides

February 12, 2020 - National Pharmaceutical Council

New NPC research: Current landscape of value assessment frameworks & Going Below the Surface Update
Kimberly Westrich
Vice President
Health Services Research
National Pharmaceutical Council

Current Landscape: Value Assessment Framework


Jen Childress

Q&A
Jen Childress
Senior Public Health Consultant
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention


Presentation
Webinar Recording
Webinar Slides

September 11, 2019 - WomenHeart & The Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC)

WomenHeart’s Federal Policy and Advocacy Efforts
Amy Freidrich-Karnik 
Vice President, Advocacy & Communications, WomenHeart
Webinar Recording


PIPC Policy & Advocacy Update
Sara van Geertruyden, JD
Executive Director, Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC)
Webinar Recording


Jen Childress

Q & A
Jen Childress
Senior Public Health Consultant, National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Q & A recording


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

August 14, 2019 - Smarter Health Care Coalition & The FH Foundation

Smarter Health Care Coalition Updates on Policy Legislation
Ray Quintero
Principal, Healthsperien, LLC
Co-Director, Smarter Health Care Coalition

Webinar Recording


FH Foundation Updates on Research & Tools
Kelly Myers
Chief Technology Officer, The FH Foundation 
Webinar Recording


Q & A
Norm Linsky
Executive Director, Mended Hearts
Q & A recording


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

 

July 10, 2019 - National Lipid Association Statement Enhancing the Value of PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibodies by Identifying Patients Most Likely to Benefit

image-id-1179National Lipid Association Statement: Enhancing the Value of PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibodies by Identifying Patients Most Likely to Benefit
Jennifer Robinson, MD, MPH
Chair, Value & Access Steering Committee

Director, Preventive Intervention Center
Professor, Departments of Epidemiology & Medicine
University of Iowa


image-id-1179Q & A
Jen Childress
Senior Public Health Consultant
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention


Presentation
Webinar Recording
Q & A Recording
Webinar Slides 

Resources Referenced in Presentation

National Lipid Association: Enhancing the Value of PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibodies by Identifying Patients Most Likely to Benefit Resource Page (including manuscript and infographic)

June 12, 2019 - Best Practices for P&T Committees Checklist

image-id-1179Best Practices for P&T Committees Checklist
Michael W . Cropp, MD, MBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Independent Health
Webinar Recording


John M. Clymer

Q & A
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Q & A Recording


Presentation
Webinar Slides 

Link Referenced in Presentation

P&T Committee Best Practices Checklist 

April 10, 2019 - National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions

Rx Purchaser Policy Principles
Michael Thompson
President & CEO
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Webinar Recording


John M. Clymer

Q & A
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Q & A recording


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

 Links Referenced in Presentation
PBM Assessment Tool
Blog Post: Views: “Yes, it’s time to kill drug rebates

February 13, 2019 - American Heart Association, National Pharmaceutical Council

Value in Healthcare Initiative
Madeleine Konig
Director
Value in Healthcare Initiative
American Heart Association
Webinar Recording
Call to Action: Urgent Challenges in Cardiovascular Disease: A Presidential Advisory From the American Heart Association


Going Below the Surface Health Spending Initiative
Kimberly Westrich
Vice President
Health Services Research
National Pharmaceutical Council
Webinar Recording
Prioritizing Health Care Spending: Engaging Employees in Health Care Benefit Design


Jen Childress

Q&A
Jen Childress
Senior Public Health Consultant
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Recording Q&A


Presentations
Webinar Slides

January 9, 2019 - Smarter Health Care Coalition, American College of Cardiology

Smarter Health Care Coalition Overview 
Andrew MacPherson
Co-Director
Smarter Health Care Coalition
Webinar Recording


Actionable Cohorts for High Value
Joe Allen
Senior Director, Solution Sets and Clinical Standards
American College of Cardiology
Webinar Recording

December 12, 2018 - Partnership to Advance Cardiovascular Health, WomenHeart

Patient Co-Pay Accumulators
Ryan Gough
Executive Director
Partnership to Advance Cardiovascular Health (PACH)
Webinar Recording


Access Now!
Amy Freidrich-Karnik, MPP
Director, Public Policy
WomenHeart
Webinar Recording


John M. Clymer

Q&A
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Closing Recording
Q&A


Presentations
Webinar Slides

 Links Referenced in Presentations
 PACH
Co-Pay Surprise Video
WomenHeart
Access to Care Education Module
Access to Care Video
Know Your Rights Fact Sheet 
Robin’s Insurance Story Video
Ingrid’s Insurance Story Video

 

November 14, 2018 - Global Healthy Living Foundation, National Lipid Association

Patient Health Insurance Guide
Daniel Hernandez, MD
Medical Advocacy Liaison
Global Healthy Living Foundation (GHLF)
Webinar Recording
A Patient’s Guide To Health Insurance


Clinical Tool for Best Practices in the Use of PCSK9 Inhibitors
Brian Hart, JD
Executive Director
National Lipid Association
Webinar Recording
Therapeutics Committee PCSK9 best practices document
Barriers survey manuscript
Barriers survey checklist
Barriers survey infographic
NLA PCSK9 inhibitors update


Jen Childress

Q&A
Jen Childress
Senior Public Health Consultant
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention

Q&A


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

September 12, 2018 - Mended Hearts, American Pharmacists Association Foundation

Insights on Mended Hearts’ Access to Care Summit and Advocacy Efforts
Andrea Baer, MS
Director of Patient Advocacy and Program Management
Mended Hearts and Mended Little Hearts
Webinar Recording 


Access & Prevention in At-Risk Populations
Benjamin M. Bluml, RPh
Senior Vice President, Research and Innovation
American Pharmacists Association Foundation
Webinar Recording


John M. Clymer

Q&A
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Closing Recording
Q&A – part 1 |  Q&A – part 2


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

August 8, 2018 - VBID Center, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, Call for ICER Input

Value-Based Insurance Design (V-BID): Improving Medication Adherence Without Increasing Total Health Care Spending
A. Mark Fendrick, MD
Director
University of Michigan Center for Value-Based Insurance Design
Webinar Recording


National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions Remedy Partners Collaboration
Michael Thompson
President & CEO
National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
Webinar Recording


Scoping Document for ICER’s Review of Canakinumab’s ASCVD Indication
Jennifer Robinson, MD, MPH
Value & Access Initiative Steering Committee Chair
The National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Recording


John M. Clymer

Opening & Closing Comments
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Opening Recording
Webinar Closing Recording 


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

July 11, 2018 - PIPC, FH Foundation, The National Forum

Informed Health Care
Sara van Geertruyden, JD
Executive Director
Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC)
Webinar Recording


FH Foundation’s Navigating Insurance Guide and FH Awareness Month
Amanda Sheldon
Vice President, Marketing and Public Relations
The FH Foundation
Webinar Recording


Debbie Martinez

Counter CholesterolTM
Debbie Martinez, MS
Program Manager
The National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Recording


John M. Clymer

Opening & Closing Comments
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Opening Recording
Webinar Closing Recording 


Presentations
Webinar Slides 

June 6, 2018 - ABC, ASPC, PCNA

Results from the ABC and ACC Survey: Eliminating Access Disparities
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA
Professor of Medicine
Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute, Tulane University School of Medicine
Chair
ABC Access Initiative
Webinar Recording 


Guide to ASPC’s Mobile App with tools and resources to help providers streamline the prior authorization process
Seth Baum, MD, FASPC
President
The American Society for Preventive Cardiology (ASPC)
Webinar Recording


Spotlight on PCNA’s tool to help providers navigate prior authorization and patient assistance programs
Sue Koob, MPA, Chief Executive Officer
Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association (PCNA)
Webinar Recording
Access to Innovative Medicines Health Care Provider Tip Sheet


John M. Clymer

Opening & Closing Comments
John Clymer
Executive Director
National Forum for Heart Disease & Stroke Prevention
Webinar Opening Recording
Webinar Closing Recording 


Presentations
Webinar Slides