Forum Session
| Date: | APRIL 8, 1999 |
| Title: | Providing Outpatient Prescription Drugs through Medicare: Can We Afford To? Can We Afford Not To? |
| Manager: | Robin J. Strongin |
| Summary: | As members of Congress and administration officials continued to grapple with whether, how, and to what extent to provide outpatient prescription drug coverage to Medicare beneficiaries, this initial session in a series planned by the Forum placed the debate in context. A history of the previous ill-fated attempts to legislate this benefit was provided as were highlights of the clinical advances that have revolutionized the pharmaceutical armamentarium. A panel of experts described tools developed to manage the utilization and cost of drugs. |
| Speakers: | Michael Pollard, MPH, JD, Partner, Michaels, Wishner & Bonner, PC; Jean Paul Gagnon, PhD, Director, Health Policy, Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc.; Elizabeth Dichter, Executive Vice President, Strategic Marketing, PCS Health Systems, Inc.; W. Gary Erwin, PharmD, Vice President, Health Systems Programs, Omnicare, Inc.; Ann E. Koci, Commissioner of Adult and Medical Services, Topeka, Kansas and Chair, Pharmacy Technical Advisory Group, National Association of State Medicaid Directors |
| Related Materials: |
More information available in the accompanying Background Paper. |
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