Complexities of the EpiPen® Price Increase

01/12/17 • 19 min

Listen as Dr. Rayvelle Stallings, Vice President of Government Programs at DST's Argus Health offers her unique perspective on patient impact, particularly children, from the point of view of a family physician, government programs expert and mother of a son required to carry an EpiPen®.

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Managing the Complexities of Prescription Opioid Misuse and Overuse

Preventing prescription drug abuse remains a top health priority for state and federal policy makers, and one that requires a comprehensive approach. In early 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced several new opioid abuse prevention and treatment initiatives and as recently as July 22, 2016 President Obama signed into law S.524, the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act (CARA), a framework addressing opioid abuse prevention and treatment, including evidence-based interventions. Listen as AJ Ally, Vice President of Clinical Operations at Argus Health helps you understand the new policies and implications for managing the complexities of prescription opioid abuse. The following areas will be reviewed during this discussion: 1. Drivers for opioid misuse and overuse 2. Potential impact of retail pharmacies offering free naloxone without a prescription 3. Proposed approach to managing opioid abuse and misuse through analytics and convergent solutions 4. Utilization management guidelines (FDA, CDC, CARA) & implications to health plans and manufacturers 5. Down the horizon - new and innovative treatments and solutions

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As value-based care gains prominence, payers are developing new models that better align cost effective, consumer-focused, and value-based strategies for paying for medical services. Listen as DST’s Argus Health President Marc Palmer shares insights for integrating value into pharmacy benefit management, ways of balancing care with costs and his vision for how Argus has and will continue to meet the demands and challenges brought forth by this new model and under a new administration.