ABOUT

The 2024 PQA Leadership Summit takes place November 7-8, 2024, in Arlington, Va. The summit annually convenes thought leaders, key decision makers, and quality stakeholders to interactively and collaboratively develop strategies to improve medication use quality. The summit is an invitation-only event for PQA member organization leaders, directors and subject matter experts. This year’s summit is focused on pharmacy measure use in value-based arrangements and quality improvement programs.

PHARMACY MEASURE DEVELOPMENT & USE

Performance measures and quality improvement indicators can provide pharmacists the opportunity to demonstrate their contributions toward high-quality, patient-centered care. These measures and tools, however, depend on the ability to fairly and accurately document the quality of services provided by pharmacies.

To date, the pharmacy industry has suffered from a lack of valid, standardized, and consensus-based quality measures that can be used to objectively assess quality within the context of payer-pharmacy arrangements. To help meet that need, PQA engaged payers, community pharmacies, and technology vendors to use pharmacy measures and measure concepts in real-world settings to assess feasibility of data capture, reporting, and improvement towards evidence-based goals. These projects address hemoglobin A1C and blood pressure improvement and control and specialty pharmacy turnaround time.

This PQA Leadership Summit will showcase the results of those projects and the lessons learned that can be applied to future partnerships between pharmacies, payers and technology vendors. Through a series of interactive general session discussions, PQA staff and implementation project participants will detail their approach, experience and outcomes. These projects and their results may become the foundation of standardized, and consensus-based approaches to quality measurement and improvement.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

Thursday, November 7

Friday, November 8

3:00-3:45 p.m. – Welcome and Overview of Pharmacy

Measures

3:45-5:00 p.m. – Using Pharmacy Measures in Value-Based Arrangements and Quality Improvement Programs

5:00-6:30 p.m. – Networking Reception

7:15-8:00 a.m. – Breakfast

8:00-9:00 a.m. – Overcoming Barriers to Pharmacy Measure Use: Collecting and Sharing Data

9:00-9:15 a.m. – Break

9:15-10:15 a.m. – Overcoming Barriers to Pharmacy Measure Use: Incentives and Drivers

10:15-10:30 a.m. - Break

10:30-11:30 p.m. – National Momentum and Support for Pharmacy Measures

11:30-1:00 p.m. – Working Lunch: PQA’s Role in Incentives for Pharmacy Measure Use

* Visit our website often for more information and agenda and speaker updates.

REGISTRATION

By Invitation Only

The Key Contact from each PQA member organization receives the registration information to attend the Leadership Summit. Registration is complimentary.

For the 2024 PQA Leadership Summit, PQA allows two individuals from each PQA member organization to attend this year’s summit. All Leadership Summit attendees are invited to register for PQA Convenes, and we encourage your organization to consider sending additional attendees to that special event.

Please direct any questions about the PQA Leadership Summit to Meetings@PQAalliance.org.

If you experience any issues, please contact Registration@PQAalliance.org.

HOTEL AND TRAVEL

PQA has secured a block of guest rooms at a special daily rate of $259 plus applicable state and local taxes at the:

Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel

2800 South Potomac Ave.

Arlington, VA, 22202

PQA's discounted guest rooms are limited; the reservation deadline is Tuesday, October 8, 2024, based on availability.

Hotel Cancellation Policy: Individual reservations must be canceled at least 72 hours in advance to avoid a one-night penalty.
Hotel Early Departure Policy: Upon early departure, an early departure of one night's room and applicable tax applies.

RESERVE YOUR ROOM

For assistance in booking a room, please contact Meetings@PQAalliance.org.

Airport Information

Reagan National Airport (DCA) is approximately 10 minutes from the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel. Taxi fare is estimated to be $15.
Dulles Airport (IAD) is approximately 45 minutes from the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel. Taxi fare is estimated to be $70.

Complimentary Shuttle to DCA and Crystal City Metro

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) Shuttle:

The airport shuttle operates every 30 minutes; the first shuttle departs the hotel at 5:05 a.m. daily and with the last shuttle departing the hotel at 11:05 p.m.

The Airport shuttle picks up at:

Terminal A ,near Southwest, Air Canada, and Frontier
Terminal B, and Door 4 and between Door 6 & 7

The Metro shuttle to Crystal City Metro:

The Metro shuttle operates every 30 minutes; the first Metro shuttle departs the hotel at 6:30 a.m. daily with the last Metro shuttle departing the hotel at 10:00 p.m.

Parking

On-Site Parking is $44 for daily parking and $23 for hourly. Valet parking is available for $49 daily.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

PQA is a premier marketplace for innovation and solutions for influencers and decision makers across sectors in medication use quality. Through PQA, sponsors will engage health care executives from pharmacies, health plans, health care providers, pharmacy benefit managers, biopharmaceutical companies, technology vendors, government agencies, research and more.

Review these opportunities in the Sponsorship Prospectus. To explore these opportunities or develop custom sponsorship packages, contact Loren Kirk or Sponsorship@PQAalliance.org.