Best Practices for Managing High Cost Medications

February 9, 2021

The purpose of this webinar is to provide a brief overview for pharmacy leaders to better manage high cost medications at their respective institutions. This webinar is an overview to a 5-webinar series and was inspired by the white paper entitles “Best Practices for Managing High-Cost Medications” that was published earlier this year. We will provide an overview of core principles including formulary management, managed care, purchasing/inventory management, and revenue cycle/retrospective business review. We will expand on each principle, providing examples from practices at OSU Wexner Medical Center personal experiences from our committee team.

Target Audience

  • Pharmacists

Learning Objectives

  1. Explain what classifies a high cost drug and national trends in drug expenditures
  2. Apply formulary management principles to management of high cost drugs
  3. Discuss optimal processes to enhance reimbursements within the managed care setting
  4. Identify appropriate strategies for inventory management
  5. Analyze best practices of revenue cycle integrity initiatives managed by pharmacy departments
  6. Recognize processes to conduct a retrospective business review on pharmacy services

Additional Information

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
Course opens: 
02/09/2021
Course expires: 
03/25/2021
Event starts: 
02/09/2021 - 2:00pm CST
Event ends: 
02/09/2021 - 3:00pm CST
Live via webinar
United States

Relevant financial relationships: Planning committee members and presenters have nothing to disclose

Planning committee members

Sybil Thomas, PharmD, MBA
Senior Director, Pharmacy
Vizient, Inc
 
Henry Clark, PharmD
PGY1/MS1 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Resident
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
 
Christian Tulio, PharmD, MBA
PGY1/MS1 Health-System Pharmacy Administration and Leadership Resident
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

 

Course reviewer

Sybil Thomas, PharmD, MBA
Senior Director, Pharmacy
Vizient, Inc.

 

Presenters

Steven Loborec, PharmD, MS, MPH, BCPS
Assistant Director, Business Sourcing and Strategy
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
 
Stephanie Salch, PharmD, MS, BCPS
Pharmacy Manager, UNC Homecare Specialists
UNC Health
 
David Bowman, MBA, CPht
Commodity Manager
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Joint Accreditation Statement:
 
In support of improving patient care, Vizient, Inc. is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
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Designation Statements:
 
PHARMACY
Vizient, Inc. designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 ACPE credit hours.
Universal Activity Number: JA0006103-0000-21-080-L04-P

Available Credit

  • 1.00 ACPE Pharmacist
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