You Are Invited to a LIVE Free CME/CNE/CPE Webcast:
Heart Failure Management Strategies: New Insights for Managed Care

Live Webcast Dates

• Recently published guideline updates for emerging therapies
• Positioning and utilization management criteria
• Pharmacoeconomic analyses of treatments options
• The importance of addressing noncardiac comorbidities and overseeing care transitions

• Medical Directors and Pharmacy Directors from health plans, HMOs, integrated health systems, employers, quality organizations, and other managed care organizations (MCOs)
• Managed care-affiliated care team members involved with patient evaluation, education, and follow-up for patients with heart failure including: physicians, pharmacists, and registered nurses

• Describe the recently published guideline updates for emerging therapies in HF, including results from pivotal trials and evidence supporting averted HF-related hospitalizations and/or deaths
• Apply appropriate positioning and utilization management criteria to facilitate judicious and effective utilization of emerging therapies for HF
• Characterize the disease burden of HF in the managed care setting as determined by hospitalizations and other components of morbidity and mortality
• Integrate pharmacoeconomic analyses of treatments options for HF into plan decision making
• Discuss current economic and logistic barriers to appropriate HF therapy in the managed care setting
• Illustrate opportunities to facilitate member access to care for HF in the current framework of health plan operations and infrastructure
• Characterize the importance of addressing noncardiac comorbidities and overseeing care transitions as they pertain to maintaining therapeutic persistence and improving outcomes
• Employ collaborative strategies for HF management enlisting the input and support of a multidisciplinary team of health care providers