ABOUT

The 2024 PQA Leadership Summit takes place November 7-8, 2024, at the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel 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.

SCHEDULE

Thursday, November 7

3:00-3:30 p.m. – Welcome and Overview of Pharmacy Measures

Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE
Chief Executive Officer
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Lynn Pezzullo, RPh, CPEHR, CPHQ
Vice President, Quality Innovation
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

3:30-5:00 p.m. – Using Pharmacy Measures in Value-Based Arrangements and Quality Improvement Programs

Gain insights on the recent PQA pilot projects that have used pharmacy measure concepts to evaluate the impact of pharmacist-provided care on important areas of health. Panelists will discuss the approaches taken in the pilots, the experiences of the participants, and lessons learned that can be applied to future quality initiatives.

Andrea Brookhart, PharmD, BCACP, FAPhA

Director, Population Health & Wellness
Kroger Health

Jessica Hatton, PharmD, BCACP

Associate Vice President, Pharmacy – Ohio
CareSource

Ryan Nix, PharmD, MMHC
Senior Director, Specialty Pharmacy Operations
Vanderbilt Health

Ben Shirley, CPHQ
Senior Director, Performance Measurement

Pharmacy Quality Alliance

Lynn Pezzullo, RPh, CPEHR, CPHQ
Vice President, Quality Innovation
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

MODERATOR

5:00-6:30 p.m. – Networking Reception

Friday, November 8

7:15-8:00 a.m. – Breakfast

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

Gain insights on barriers and opportunities for collecting and sharing clinical and other data between payers and pharmacies for quality improvement and value-based arrangements. Learnings from recent PQA pilot projects using pharmacy measure concepts will be highlighted.

Johnny Chau, PharmD
Clinical Operations Manager

Kaiser Permanente National Specialty Pharmacy

Josh Howland, PharmD, MBA
President, Pharmacy Systems
RedSail Technologies

Ashley Lanham, PharmD, MBA
Director of Medicare Pharmacy

Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Monali Shenolikar, PhD
Director, Advanced Pharmacy Analytics

CPESN

Ben Shirley, CPHQ
Senior Director, Performance Measurement
PQA

9:00-9:15 a.m. – Break

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

Gain insights on important drivers and opportunities for incentives for quality improvement and value-based arrangements between payers and pharmacies, focused on the importance of standardized measurement.

Samm Anderegg, PharmD, MS

Chief Executive Officer

DocStation

Laurin Dixon, PharmD
Vice President, Operational Excellence
Centene

Heather Kirkham, PhD, MPH

Director, Health Analytics, Research, & Reporting

Walgreens

Jasmine Perry Strayhorn, PharmD, CPHQ
Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina

Richard Schmitz
Chief Engagement Officer
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

MODERATOR

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

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

Gain insights on a variety of efforts across the nation to implement and evaluate the quality of pharmacist-provided care and pharmacy services and where opportunities for standardized measurement exist.

Stephanie McGrath, PharmD
Executive Director
Pennsylvania Pharmacists Care Network

Anita Aderinkomi, PharmD, MBA, BCACP
Manager, Pharmacy Services

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota

Amie Stephens, PharmD, MHSA

Director, Adherence Improvement and Client Services

Rite Aid Corporation

Allison Shuster, PharmD
Director, Pharmacy Development
Pfizer, Inc.

Lisa Hines
Chief Quality and Innovation Officer
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

MODERATOR

11:30-1:00 p.m. – Lunch and Incentives for Pharmacy Measure Use: PQA's Role

Through quality measures and related tools, PQA plays a critical role in supporting and advancing pharmacy practice. Learn about PQA’s opportunity to recognize high-quality pharmacies and the partners they support in delivering high-quality care and improved outcomes for patients.

Susan Cantrell, MHL, RPh, CAE
Chief Executive Officer
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy

James Kirby, PharmD, BCPS, FAPhA
Chief Commerical Officer
Kroger Health

Michael Taday, PharmD, MBA
Senior Vice President, Service Operations
Aetna, A CVS Health Company

Micah Cost, PharmD, MS, CAE
Chief Executive Officer
Pharmacy Quality Alliance

MODERATOR

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

RESERVE YOUR ROOM

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.

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.