Align Summit

The Align Summit will focus on four themes to optimize medication outcomes through provider-health plan partnerships:

• Partnerships: Designing successful partnerships between health plans and pharmacist providers.

• Metrics: Identifying, prioritizing and adopting metrics aligned with the Quintuple Aim to measure value from medication management services in today’s healthcare environment.

• Program Design: Establishing effective benefit design of medication therapy management programs that create engagement with beneficiaries and care providers to produce value.
• Implementation: Once partnerships are formed, adopting best practices that support accelerated engagement by care providers in the health plan partnership and strategies to evaluate, adapt and scale the program to ensure desired outcomes of the partnership are realized.

• Pharmacists practicing in community and ambulatory care settings seeking to grow sustainable medication management programs
• Health system pharmacist leaders responsible for outpatient clinical program success
• Health plan leaders responsible for clinical programs aimed at improving performance metrics and total cost of care
• National and state association leaders seeking to support provider-health plan partnership development
• Leaders of state health departments and Medicaid programs seeking to improve chronic health measures and manage health care costs
• Leaders from schools of pharmacy that seek to create influential partnerships that advance pharmacy practice in their respective regions
• Leaders from health IT aiming to collaborate on strategies and solutions to evaluate, adapt, and scale medication management programs to ensure desired outcomes  

• Share experiences from those who have engaged in payer-provider partnership building to inspire new regional collaborations throughout the country
• Engage stakeholders in strategic discussions to define best practices for health plan and pharmacist provider partnerships, optimizing medication outcomes and advancing equitable care
• Promote development and adoption of critical administrative systems that support optimal care delivery and creation of value-based partnerships, including (but not limited to) health information technology, credentialing, and performance-based metrics.