Showing 1216 Results
NPC in Specialty Pharmacy Times: Health Care Economic Information and Its Impact on Value-Based Contracts
In his latest column in Specialty Pharmacy Times, NPC President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Leonard explains how expanding HCEI for sophisticated audiences like payers and population health…
Case Study Shows Benefits of Engaging Employees in Health Benefit Design
As open enrollment season for health insurance gets underway, a new case study shows that employees who are meaningfully engaged in deliberating and designing their health care benefits may have a…
Prioritizing Health Care Spending: Engaging Employees in Health Care Benefit Design
A case study shows that employees who are who are meaningfully engaged in deliberating and designing their health care benefits may have a more positive view of their coverage options.
NPC’s Dubois Named to Health Affairs Council on Health Care Spending and Value
Leading health policy journal Health Affairs announced the members of its Council on Health Care Spending and Value, a group of diverse health care thought leaders focused on examining the different…
Growing Questions About Frameworks Highlight Need for Guiding Practices for Value Assessment
For several years, NPC has kept a close eye on value assessment frameworks and engaging with developers on ways to improve their methodologies, involve patient organizations and use a broad range of…
Social Determinants of Health May Be Key to Value-based Care
There is growing recognition that improving access to care and patient health, including access to medications, requires focus on social, economic and environmental factors. At its upcoming…
NPC in Specialty Pharmacy Times: Inconsistent Specialty Pharmaceutical Coverage Threatens Care Coordination, Continuity
In his latest column for Specialty Pharmacy Times, NPC President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Leonard explores research published in Health Affairs that sheds light on when and how payers cover…
Going Below the Surface E-Newsletter: September 2018
In this issue, we explore incentives in hospital and physician care.
National Pharmaceutical Council to CVS: Join Us in a Broader Dialogue to Address Health Care Spending
The viewpoints published on the Health Affairs Blog bring an important question to mind: will CVS join the National Pharmaceutical Council and key stakeholders from across the health sector in our…
Amplifying the Migraine Community Voice in ICER Value Assessment Process
In an interview with NPC, Lindsay Videnieks, director of the Headache and Migraine Policy Forum (HMPF), discusses the kind of effort it takes to become involved in the ICER value assessment process,…
NPC in Chain Drug Review: Preserving the Proven Impact of Biopharmaceutical Innovation
In his latest commentary for Chain Drug Review, NPC President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Leonard considers the challenges in measuring and paying for value in health care, particularly when it…
Going Below the Surface E-newsletter: August 2018
In this issue, we share a video with experts on the importance of understanding health care spending, why patient engagement matters, and more on value-based care.
Get to Know Duke Margolis-NPC Postdoctoral Health Policy Fellow Taruja Karmarkar, PhD
Duke Margolis-NPC Postdoctoral Health Policy Fellow Taruja Karmarkar, PhD, sat down with us to discuss her upcoming research, bridging the gap between academia and health care stakeholders, tips for…
Going Below the Surface: A Video on Why We Need to Have a Health Spending Dialogue
Watch health care experts explain why it's important to find tangible solutions to inefficiencies in the American health care system.
Real-World Data in the Current Health Care Environment
In this guest blog post, Dr. Eberechukwu Onukwugha of the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy's Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research explores the value of real-world data.