Dates: September 11th to 13th, 2011
Location: Baltimore, MD, Marriott Baltimore Waterfront
- Room rate $179 per night
- To make your reservation please call the hotel reservations at 1 (800) 228-9290 or (410) 385-3000
- Room cut-off is 8/13/11
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Members Meeting
Fall 2011
September 11th to 13th 2011
Baltimore, MD
Monday – 8am to 5 pm
7:30 am Breakfast in meeting room
8:00 am Board Update – Mark Plencner, Chairman of the Board
8:15 am Alliance Update – Joe Pugliese
9:00 am Billing Issues: How to tackle them – Panel Discussion
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Payer Update: PBM’s and Carve outs, how to tackle them? – Roland Lamy
10:45 am Going Independent: Lessons from Independent HTCs – Diane Nugent, M.D.
11:15 am HTCs within Children’s Hospitals – Regina Butler
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Medicaid: A case study –Debra Demers
2:15 pm Medicaid Advocacy: Plan and timeline – Ellen Riker
3:15 pm HRSA Update: Sarah Linde-Feucht, M.D. (Scheduled to speak)
4:00 pm Acupuncture: Benefits for Hemophilia patients
4:30 pm NHF Update – Val Bias
7:30 am Breakfast in meeting room
8:00 am OIG Update on 340B review – Kelly Waldhoff
8:30 am The Alliance Pharmacy: Panel Discussion
9:00 am Apexus: What’s new with the Prime Vendor – John Barnes
9:30 am Presentation by Baxter
10:00 am Break
10:15 am Government Update: OIG Medicaid Policies and Orphan Drugs – Stacia Leblanc
11:00 am Presentation by CSL
11:30 am Lunch
12:30 pm MCHB Update – Kathryn Mclaughlin, Hemophilia Division and Sara Copeland, M.D. (Scheduled to attend meeting)
1:15 pm OPA Update – Kwakou Butcher – Hemophilia Program Manager
1:45 pm Closing Remarks – Pam Betz, Vice Chair
