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Community Oncology Conference Ricky Newton, CPA Director of Financial Services and Operations and Treasurer April 24, 2015
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Background ▪ 25-35% of all new drugs being made for oncology patients are coming out as oral drugs ▪ Patients need a safe, reliable, accessible and affordable environment that is tightly integrated into their overall cancer care ▪ Community clinics over the years have opened up facilities within their clinics to provide these services instead of the patients having to rely on specialty pharmacies and other retail pharmacies
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70 Oncology Oral Drugs 3 © 2015 Community Oncology Alliance
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Oral Drugs Classified by Indication 4 © 2015 Community Oncology Alliance
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▪ Foster oral cancer therapy tightly integrated into cancer patient treatment at the site of care. Specifically, COPA will: Help practices enhance outcomes of cancer patients treated with oral medications ▸ Focus on quality, efficiency, and financial viability Establish quality standards, best practice benchmarks, operating procedures, and other clinical/operating processes Provide a forum for practices to share best practices and information, especially relating to state pharmacy issues Develop the quality/value proposition of “integrated oral cancer treatment” for payers (Medicare, private, self insured) Educate pharmaceutical companies on the clinical/value proposition of “integrated oral cancer treatment” COPA Mission 6 © 2015 Community Oncology Alliance
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Examples of Specialty Pharmacies 7 © 2015 Community Oncology Alliance
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▪ Create standard national quality measures ▪ Establish a way to measure quality in a tangible way Similar to the oncology medical home initiative ▪ Publish an independent report/analysis documenting patient experience of receiving oral cancer drugs in practice versus specialty pharmacy ▪ Develop the COPA website ▪ Create information sharing on the closed COPA list serve Immediate Priorities 8 © 2015 Community Oncology Alliance
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Priorities Specific to Patients ▪ Library of patient assistant programs for all oral chemotherapy and supportive care drugs ▪ Library of patient focused educational materials on each oral drug ▪ Patient focused educational material highlighting a practice’s dispensing program ▪ Blog for patients to be able to ask questions of other patients on oral drugs or the ability to write their stories and experiences to share with other 9
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▪ Story of my brother in law’s wife’s mother with Thalidomide for multiple myeloma over 15 years ago ▪ Rose will be following up with each of you in the next session about how to jump on board and help us initiate this effort
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