6th Pharma Pricing, Reimbursement & Market Access 2022

6th Annual Pharma Pricing, Reimbursement & Market Access 2022

WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND?

Get more from the event, with a broader scope bringing the whole communications value chain together. Enjoy and make the best out of our dedicated networking time, meet the leading international vendors showcasing the products of tomorrow in the co-located exhibition. Expand your knowledge of the latest business models and strategies in the high-level conference. 

Event Speakers

MARK MYERS

US Dept. of Veterans Affairs

RAHUL GOYAL

UnitedHealth Group

MELVA C

Curio Digital Therapeutics

CHARLES BROWN

Novartis Gene Therapies

KEITH WHITE

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals

LOUISE ST-ONGE

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma (Canada)

ALAN POLNARIEV

Astrazeneca

STUART LEVINE

Chicago Pacific Founders

PAUL E. F

ATRIO Health Plans

HEATHER L F

Equideum Health

ROBERT P

Global Healthy Living Foundation

AYESHA AZAM

Patient Access Network Foundation

PETER B

Deallus

VIDYA B D

Keen Access Insights

MICHAEL T

National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions

REED STEPHENS

Winston & Strawn

MARGAUX J. H

ROPES & GRAY

WILLIAM S

Sidley Austin

ANDREW T

ImprimisRx

FANTA W

Serrette Brown Research & Consulting

EVERETT C

Cognito Therapeutics

FABRIZIO G

Universities of Rome and Ferrara

TED KARNEZIS

Karnezis Consulting

CHRISTOPHER H. S

LATHAM & WATKINS

“Critical guide for successfully identifying your pricing, reimbursement and market access strategies”

Event Schedule

Learn, meet and network with your conference colleagues.

09:30 – Chairperson Opening Remarks
PETER BARSCHDORFF, Vice President, Deallus

09:40 – Real World Evidence (RWE) in the reimbursement decision-making in Canada

  • Overview of the reimbursement landscape in Canada
  • How RWE can support the decision-making for the different payers
  • Considerations for leveraging RWE across the product life cycle
  • Role of Patient Support Programs

LOUISE ST-ONGE, Market Access & Government Affairs, Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma (Canada)

 

10:20 – Application of evidence based medicine and value based contracting to insure improved patient quality, eliminate patient and physician abrasion and lower total cost of care.  The role of the:

  • Health Plan
  • PBM
  • Delegated full risk medical group
  • Physicians
  • Patients and family

How to organize this and what are the levers and expected results to achieve success
STUART LEVINE, Partner, Chicago Pacific Founders
PAUL E. FRIEDMAN, Medical Director, ATRIO Health Plans

11:00 – Morning Coffee/Tea & Networking

CHALLENGES & OPPORTUNITIES

11:20 – Keynote Panel Discussion: Pharma pricing and market access in the US: concepts, components, and future

  • New developments in pharma pricing and market access in the US
  • Staying ahead in the race - Update on pricing and market access in USA, EU & RoW –
  • Evidence driven pricing and reimbursement strategy
  • Market access scenario in developed markets versus emerging markets
  • Returning to the new normal: HTA & Reimbursement challenges in a post-pandemic world
  • Innovator strategy and investor due diligence
  • Value Assessment, navigating the global landscape

Moderator:
RAHUL GOYAL, Senior Director, UnitedHealth Group

Panellists:

MARTIN ROST, Senior Director, Market Access (Global), Pfizer
MICHAEL THOMPSON, President & CEO, National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions
JOLIE APICELLA, Assistant, U.S. Attorney’s Office, EDNY
KEITH WHIT, Head, Global Market Access, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals

12:10 – Implementing a Pricing and Market Access Strategy.

  • The importance of providing the key payer requirements.
  • The value story that payers want in order not to view a pharmaceutical as a commodity.
  • How a persuasive value proposition for a pharmaceutical is structured and common gaps in the evidence supporting a value proposition.
  • Overcoming the problem of not acting early enough to develop pricing power.
  • Patient assistance programs: do these augment the perceived value of the pharmaceutical or are they just the cost of doing business?

ANDREW THORRENS, VP / Head of Market Access (US) and Reimbursement, ImprimisRx

12:50 - Networking luncheon

REGULATION OVERVIEW & UPDATE

13:50 – Keynote Panel Discussion: Regulatory updates and development

  • Politics, Payers and Pandemonium: An insight into the future US pricing and market access environment
  • Complex regulatory and reimbursement pathways, varied evidence requirements and long procedural timelines pose risk to successful access and launch
  • Policy issues that affect pricing and reimbursements
  • Understanding the effects of forthcoming regulatory changes on your access, pricing and reimbursement efforts
  • Possible increased synergy between HTA and regulatory agencies – Opportunity or challenge for medical devices?
  • How are we to be working with payers and governments?
  • Gain clarity on issues of standards for licensure and indication extrapolation
  • Emerging trends and vision for future

Moderator:
PETER BARSCHDORFF, Vice President, Deallus


Panellists:

RICHARD LINER, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Bayer
ROBERT POPOVIAN, Chief Science Policy Officer, Global Healthy Living Foundation
REED STEPHENS, Partner, Winston & Strawn

TECHNOLOGY – SHAPING THE FUTURE

14:40 - Blockchain in the Pharmaceutical Industry: a Primer for Interpreting New Market Access Dynamics from Precision Medicine to Digital Therapeutics to Health Equity.
HEATHER LEIGH FLANNERY, Founder & CEO, Equideum Health

15:10 – Afternoon Tea/Coffee & Networking

15:30 - The Intersection of Blockchain and Biopharmaceutical Access, Economics and Research

  • The impact of blockchain currently on the US biopharmaceutical supply chain
  • Current endeavors in implementing blockchain in biopharmaceutical research and development
  • Future implications of blockchain concerning biopharmaceutical payment models
  • Engagement of patients through blockchain technology

HEATHER LEIGH FLANNERY, Founder & CEO, Equideum Health
ROBERT POPOVIAN, Chief Science Policy Officer, Global Healthy Living Foundation

HTA

16:10 – HTA and decision making in the reimbursement of medicines

  • New drugs are failing to gain reimbursement from payers/HTAs at an alarming rate, despite being approved by regulators
  • Market access, pricing and reimbursement strategy getting in the way of launch success
  • Maximizing access to drugs – debating future of global healthcare systems
  • Health policy development using outcomes research issues
  • Is there room for innovation in HTA & reimbursement schemes – and what critical capabilities are needed?

VIDYA BREEVELD–DWARKASING, Owner, Keen Access Insights (Former Head of Public Affairs & Market Access, Sanofi Pasteur)   

16:50 - 17:00 – Chairperson’s closing remarks and end of conference day 01

17:00 – 18:00 – Networking Drinks

09:30 – Chairperson Opening Remarks
PETER BARSCHDORFF, Vice President, Deallus

09:40 – Importance of Clinical and Economic Evidence to Support Product Reimbursement and HTA Needs

  • Evidence needs by major HTA agencies,
  • Generate scientific evidence in clinical development program,
  • Comparative data analysis with standard of care,
  • Head-to-head studies and indirect treatment comparisons
  • Role of real-world evidence in regulatory and reimbursement decisions
  • Health economic modelling and economic evaluation,
  • Including clinical and economic evidence in economic modelling

BOXIONG TANG, Executive Director, HEOR, Global Medical Affairs, BeiGene

10:20 – AI: HealthCare’s gateway to the future
ALAN POLNARIEV, Senior Medical Science Liaison, Astrazeneca

11:00 – Morning Coffee/Tea & Networking

PATIENT FOCUS

11:20 – Panel Discussion: Prioritising Patients! - Adding value through an innovative patient-centred approach

  • The Patient, Payer and Provider
  • The drive for better patient centricity from a pharma perspective
  • How can HTA and Regulatory Agencies better meet the needs of patients by ensuring the patient perspective is held paramount
  • Opportunities for meaningfully engaging patients in medicines research, development & delivery
  • Understanding their unmet needs
  • Best practices for collecting and incorporating patient insights
  • Driving next generation patient-centric platforms and engagement
  • Bridging communication gap between medical doctors and everyday patients

Moderator:
MELVA COVINGTON, Senior Vice President, Research and Patient Outcomes, Curio Digital Therapeutics

Panellists:
AYESHA AZAM, Vice President of Medical Affairs, Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation
FANTA WATERMAN, Managing Director, Serrette Brown Research & Consulting
CHRISTOPHER H. SCHOTT, Partner, LATHAM & WATKINS
WILLIAM SARRAILLE, Partner, Sidley Austin

12:00– Requirements of The Veterans Healthcare Act of 1992 for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers

  • Basic requirements to sell covered drugs to Federal marketplace
  • What is a covered drug?
  • What is the Federal Supply Schedule?
  • Roadmap for Compliance

MARK MYERS, Director, Healthcare Resources Division, Office of Contract Review & Inspector General, United States Department of Veterans Affairs

12:40 - Networking luncheon

13:40 – Assessing and rewarding Innovation: the Italian AIFA algorithm

  • The old and new algorithm
  • Full or partial innovative status
  • Driving criteria
  • Access benefits
  • Financial reward

FABRIZIO GIANFRATE, Professor of Health Economics and Outcome Research, Universities of Rome and Ferrara

14:20 - Employing predictive models to execute value-based pricing and contracting

  • Predictive model methodologies
  • Modeling for enriched targeting
  • Establishing evidence-based metrics for pricing and contracting

EVERETT CROSLAND, Chief Commercial Officer, Cognito Therapeutics

15:00 – Afternoon Tea/Coffee & Networking

PAYERS – INDUSTRY - GOVERMENT

15:30 – Panel Discussion: Importance of working together: Stakeholders - Industry, Payers, Physicians and Patients

  • The call for collaboration to achieve market access – who is calling and are payors truly willing?
  • The New Normal - Pioneering Digital Stakeholder Engagement
  • How can Pharma companies shake loose their negative reputation and become seen as partners in the healthcare system?
  • Successful product launches benefit more than just the industry by working together from the start.
  • Are there any stories of how collaborative partnerships to launch products in managed entry markets turned successful? What defines success and by whose definition?
  • Barriers to market access and commercial success in emerging markets

Moderator:
VIDYA BREEVELD–DWARKASING, Owner, Keen Access Insights (Former Head of Public Affairs & Market Access, Sanofi Pasteur)

Panellists:

MELVA COVINGTON, Senior Vice President, Research and Patient Outcomes, Curio Digital Therapeutics
GREG APOSTOL, Vice President and Head of Market Access, Alkermes
CHARLES BROWN, Director, Global Pricing and Contracting, Global Value & Access, Novartis Gene Therapies
MARGAUX J. HALL, Partner, ROPES & GRAY
TED KARNEZIS, Owner, Karnezis Consulting

16:20 - 16:30 – Chairperson’s closing remarks and end of conference day 02

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Rie Strøbeck Pedersen

  • Date : 16 June 2022
  • Time : 9:30 am - 6:00 pm (UTC-4)

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