Global Conference 2014
If You Cure It, Will They Pay? Placing a Value on Lives
Wednesday, April 30, 2014 / 11:15 am - 12:15 pm
As pressure to cut health-care costs builds, the imperative to demonstrate "value" has become central. Even as promising new therapies for deadly and debilitating diseases - cancer, cystic fibrosis and hepatitis C, to name a few - receive FDA approval and come to market, there is no guarantee the patients who need them will be reimbursed. They are left to worry whether these innovations will be economically out of reach, while the companies that produce them scramble to prove their value. What happens when value is calculated without patients' input? At this event, we'll hear from patients, drug developers, payers and providers, who'll discuss how reimbursement criteria impede or accelerate the advances that extend and improve lives.
Moderator
Mary Dwight
Senior Vice President, Policy and Community Affairs, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Speakers
Gregg Alton
Executive Vice President, Corporate and Medical Affairs, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
Shamiram Feinglass
Founder and CEO, The Feinglass Group; Former Vice President, Global Medical and Regulatory Affairs, Zimmer
Dean Rosen
President and CEO, Breakaway Policy Strategies; Partner, Mehlman Vogel Castagnetti
Reed Tuckson
Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections
Sean Tunis
President and CEO, Center for Medical Technology Policy