Helping Employers Prepare for Effectively Managing Specialty Pharmacy Benefits

• Draw knowledge from leading experts on the impact biologics and specialty pharmacy drugs will play on the application of health benefits
• Understand the challenges employers face in managing specialty pharmacy and recognize the opportunities to help them more effectively address costs and patient outcomes
• Hear what direction leading employers plan in the future for specialty pharmacy benefits
• Address the challenges of what specialty drug costs run through the medical benefit versus the pharmacy benefit
• Identify strategies for cancer care pathways, benefit designs and tools for employers to better manage the oncology benefit
  
• Compare and contrast the ways PBMs, health plans and specialty pharmacies support employer efforts to manage trend and utilization

8:40AM         Specialty Pharmacy Landscape:  Impacts to Employers

• F. Randy Vogenberg, PhD, RPh, Institute for Integrated Healthcare
• Ron Finch, EdD, Principle, Finch Associates & Vice President, National Business Group on Health

9:50AM          Break

10:05AM       MBGH National Employer Initiative on Specialty Pharmacy Benefits                  

• Cheryl Larson, Vice President, MBGH
• Margaret Rehayem, Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives & Communications, MBGH

10:30AM       Supplier Strategies Panel

• Kelly Pokuta, PharmD, Director, Specialty Pharmacy, Catamaran
• Gordon Kuntz, Director of Payer Business Development, ION Solutions
• Randy Vogenberg
• Ron Finch

11:15AM         Employer Reactor Panel

Supported by the MBGH National Employer Initiative

on Specialty Pharmacy Benefits