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

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

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

 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.

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

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

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

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

Presentation
Webinar Recording
Webinar Slides

Content coming soon!

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

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

Presentations
Webinar Slides 

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 

National 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

Q & 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)

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

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 

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

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“

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

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

Presentations
Webinar Slides

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