Eastern Medicaid Pharmacy Administrators Association

 

 

                        

 

CONNECTICUT-DELAWARE-MAINE-MARYLAND-MASSACHUSETTS-NEW HAMPSHIRE-NEW JERSEY-NEW YORK-PENNSYLVANIA-RHODE ISLAND-VERMONT-WASHINGTON D.C.-WEST VIRGINIA

 

 

2022 ANNUAL MEETING

 

 

The 46th annual Eastern Medicaid Pharmacy Administrators meeting was held November 13 through November 16, 2022

at The Sagamore Resort , Lake George, NY.

 

Thank you to everyone who attended and helped to make the meeting a successful exchange of information.

 

 

 

 

Meeting Agenda

 

Presentations:

 

Elizabeth Allen, Medicaid Drug Price Transparency and Cost Learning Collaborative

 

Jeffrey Barkin, MD, DFAPA, Pediatric Mental Health, Antipsychotics, and the Impacts of Major Societal Trends

 

Krista D. Capehart, PharmD, MS, BCACP, FAPhA, AE-C, Pandemics and the Medicaid Program Response

 

Sara Drake, RPh, MPH, MBA, Medicaid Pharmacy Cost Savings: Taking Policy Ideas to the Next Level

 

Angela Fitch, MD, Treating Obesity as a Chronic Disease: Removing Stigma and Improving Lives

 

Jay Gupta, RPh, MTM Specialist, C-IAYT, Putting Insomnia to Sleep

 

Neha Kashalikar, PharmD, Accelerated Approval Pathways and Ways to Address the Influx of New Drugs

 

Pavel Lavitas, PharmD, BCPS, Preparing for Specialty Drug Spend in 2022-2023

 

Mckenzie McVeigh, PharmD, MS, Unified Formulary: The Good, The Bad, and How to Drive Savings

 

Thomas Pomfret, PharmD, MPH, BCPS, Addressing Health Equity for Medicaid Members Through Improved Social Risk Factor Data Collection and Strategies to Reduce Health Disparities

 

Mahsa Salsabili, PharmD, PhD, Digital Therapy Pipeline and Value Assessment – Not Your Typical New Drug Review

 

R. Corey Waller, MD, MS, DFASAM, Opioids, Buprenorphine and Reality