Healthcare Panel: Prescription Drug Cost Mitigation & Specialty Drug Pipeline

Rising medication costs are increasingly impacting individuals, health plans, and government payers.  Launch prices of new drugs have been increasing for the last decade and some life-saving medications cost hundreds of thousands or millions per dose.  This learning community will include pharmacy benefit experts from Solid Benefit Guidance, as well as panelists from pharmacy benefit managers to discuss rising drug costs and the impact on overall increases in health care costs, the specialty drug pipeline and additional high cost drugs expected in the future, and strategies to mitigate those rising costs.

Moderator:
Kathy Hohner, Area Vice President at Solid Benefit Guidance

Panelists:
Eric McKinley, PharmD; Area Vice President at Solid Benefit Guidance
Ryan Haumschild, PharmD, MS, MBA; Director of Pharmacy Services at Emory Healthcare and Winship Cancer Institute
Rachel Harmon, R.Ph., Director, Specialty Solutions, Accredo/Express Scripts
Tara Higgins, PharmD; Sr. Director, Clinical Consulting for Employers/Health Systems, OptumRx