2009 Webinar Series
1. Webinar on Understanding & Controlling Specialty Pharmaceutical Cost Trends
David Ermer, Esq.
Managing Partner, Ermer & Brownell, PLLC
Burton I. Orland, B. S., R. Ph.
BioCare Consultants
Steven Palma
Claim Audit & Recovery Services, SCIOinspire
Each year, healthcare payers spend increasingly more on claims for specialty pharmaceuticals and related services. This special class of drugs is administered in various settings, including hospitals, physicians' offices, and patients' homes. While these typically infused and injected drugs can save and extend lives, their extremely high cost is dramatically impacting healthcare payers and the people they serve. U.S expenditure on specialty pharmaceuticals is expected to reach almost $100 billion per year by the end of 2010, almost five times the amount spent in 2001.
This Webinar addresses dramatically increasing specialty pharmaceutical costs to healthcare payers, current federal government focus on the issue, and pre-payment and post-payment claim strategies in use by healthcare payers.
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2. Two-Session Webinar on Monitoring Trends and Measuring Outcomes in Disease and Wellness Management Programs.
June 10, 2009
Ian Duncan, FSA MAAA
President, Solucia Consulting, a SCIOinspire Company
Brian T. Day, EdD
Director of Advanced Analytics, Highmark
Planning and Evaluating an Employee Wellness Program
Despite the recession and recent cutbacks in some benefit programs, employers continue to add wellness programs and are increasingly concerned whether they are the right ones for their population and whether they are producing a financial return. This session focuses on how planning and evaluating these programs can contribute to improved outcomes.
June 17, 2009
Elaine Mischler, MD
Mischler Consultants, LLC
Jonathan Gelfand, MPH, MBA
Director of Health and Well-Being, Hess Corp.
Bart Bracken
Managing Partner, Solucia Consulting, a SCIOinspire Company
Disease Management and Wellness: Results of a Market Survey. Presentations and an Interactive Panel Discussion on the Future of Disease Management and Wellness Programs
The panel addresses the differences in the priorities of employers, health plans and disease management service providers that could lead to potential problems down the road.
Archive
2005 Webinar Series
- Medicare's "Psychiatric DRGs" - Anticipating the Financial Impact on Hospitals and Private Sector Organizations
- Underwriting and Managing Disease Management Guarantees
- Recent Developments in Disease Management ROI Measurement
2006 Webinar Series
- Three-part Series on Achieving ROI and Avoiding Measurement Fallacies
- What Will it Take for Disease Management to Demonstrate an ROI?
- Better ROI Calculations Using Predictive Modeling
- ROI Measurement: Finding the Fallacies
- Healthcare Data: Pitfalls and Peculiarities
- Incentives: Investment or Expense
2007 Webinar Series
- Reactions to the New DMAA Outcomes Guidelines
2008 Webinar Series
- Three-part Series on New Developments in Disease Management ROI
- Overview of Revised Outcomes Measurement Guidelines Published By DMAA: Care Continuum Alliance
- What's New in Disease Management Outcomes Evaluation Methodologies
- Measuring Disease Management Outcomes in Small Populations
