CIS and ExL Pharma Present:

Mastering the Government Programs Systems Environment:

Assessing Your Current Toolset and Evaluating Your Options
Wednesday, June 3, 2009

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM, EDT

Leaders:
Bill Baxter, Strategic Advisor, Government Affairs, CIS
Chris Cobourn, Vice President of Regulatory Compliance, CIS
Joseph DelPonte, Sr. Director of Price Reporting & Contract Operations, Stiefel Laboratories, Inc.
Catrina Hirschauer, Manager of Government Pricing and Reporting, Xanodyne Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Todd Leduc, Sr. Government Sales Analyst, Contract Pricing and Reimbursement, Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Marika Thiessen, Director of Sales Operations, Sirion Therapeutics

Webinar Summary:
Multiple regulatory agencies publish statutory calculation guidance across Medicaid,
Medicare Part B, the PHS program, the VA program and now Tricare. Each manufacturer
has to be able to understand the guidance as it applies to them, develop appropriate calculation
methodologies for each of the calculation types, and then have the right toolset to perform the calculations. In this seminar, we evaluate your options and discuss the challenges and issues that manufacturers face. This includes budgetary and resourcing challenges faced by small and mid-market companies, as they try to find a practical balance between compliance and operational costs while ensuring that they are reporting accurately to the Federal and State Governments.

A Note from Chris Cobourn:
All companies have some “system” for performing their calculations, whether using spreadsheets or other tools, implementing a commercial GP system, or having a third party perform the calculations. Companies may be evaluating their options and trying to determine the appropriate path for them, or they may want to know how to evaluate the compliance of their current systems. I have had discussions with many companies on this topic, so I thought it would be good to have a forum where companies could hear from CIS and their industry counterparts.

In our Webinar next week, we will discuss the core components and requirements of a good GP system, and have industry representatives talk about the approaches they selected and why.

I hope that you will consider attending, it should be a good discussion, and will definitely give you some food for thought as you evaluate your current toolset and options. Feel free to reach out to me with an email if you would like to know more about the Webinar.

Chris
chriscobourn@cis-partners.com

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