Key Thoughts on Controlling Pharmacy Spend for Hospitals

 

Tuesday, February 26th, 2019 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm CST

The predominant contributor to increased drug spending is drug price, not utilization. As large purchasers of drugs, hospitals face significant financial burden when prices increase — some quite dramatically in short periods of time — and absorb the excess costs when reimbursement rates do not keep up.

Hear what strategies and initiatives executives and senior leaders from University of Missouri Health Care, UChicago Medicine, Adventist Health, HonorHealth, Baylor Scott & White Health, and LRMC are implementing to help control pharmacy spend in this webinar with Becker's Hospital Review.

 

Opening Remarks By: Patrick Yoder, PharmD, Chief Executive Officer, LogicStream Health

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Presenters:

Brad Myers, PharmD, MBA, BCPS

Executive Director, Pharmacy and Laboratory Services

University of Missouri Health Care

 

Randy Knoebel, PharmD

Senior Manager, Pharmacy Health Analytics & Drug Policy, PGY1 Pharmacy

Residency; Director, Pharmacy Director, Pain Stewardship, UChicago Medicine

 

Terry Webb, PharmD, MBA

System Pharmacy Executive, Care Delivery

Adventist Health

 

Matthew Pond

Network Vice President of Pharmacy Services

HonorHealth

 

Ping Du

Vice President, Outpatient Pharmacy

Baylor Health Enterprises, Baylor Scott & White Health

 

Neil Bulich

Vice President, Pharmacy

AdventHealth West Florida Division

 

Moderated by Scott Becker