AcademyHealth and NPC are kicking off a series of webinars on October 18th that seeks to promote serious evidence-based discussions related to costs, value, and allocation of health care spending and how those expenditures can best generate improved health outcomes.

In an interview with NPC, Lindsay Videnieks, director of the Headache and Migraine Policy Forum, discusses the kind of effort it takes to become involved in the ICER value assessment process, what her organization learned along the way and how ICER’s patient engagement process could be improved.

In his latest column for Specialty Pharmacy Times, NPC President and Chief Executive Officer Dan Leonard explores research published in Health Affairs that sheds light on when and how payers cover specialty medications.