You don’t need to miss the upcoming CPAN Advocacy Chat, we hope you’ll be able to be a part of us!
Matter: How PBMs Are Blocking Affected person Entry to Medicine: A CPAN Advocacy Chat
Date & Time: Oct 8, 2025 12:00 PM in Jap Time (US and Canada)
Description: Sufferers with most cancers are more and more having their care interrupted by a little-known intermediary: the pharmacy profit supervisor (PBM). Be part of the COA Affected person Advocacy Community (CPAN) for a digital Advocacy Chat on Wednesday, October 8, at 12 p.m. ET to study what PBMs are and the way they’re affecting the standard and availability of most cancers care.
Host Rose Gerber, MS, will probably be joined by COA’s Director of Medical Initiatives, Christine Pfaff, RPh, MBA, as they focus on how PBMs match into the care equation. Created to handle pharmacy advantages for employers, PBMs have ballooned into Fortune 100 corporations which are blocking important care within the identify of revenue. These delays and denials create annoying conditions for sufferers already coping with severe illnesses. Rose and Christine will focus on the ways in which PBMs affect the prescription chain by way of prior authorization, white bagging, prescription trolling (diverting a prescription from a affected person’s most popular pharmacy to the PBM’s in-house pharmacy) and different ways, what’s being finished to fight the affect of PBMs on the state and federal ranges, and suggestions for you on how you can navigate the PBM maze as a affected person, advocate, doctor, or care skilled.
Webinar Registration: https://coacancer.zoom.us/webinar/register/6017580447768/WN_TsVl9qMmSIGKnTIxe5HWhw#/registration
Click on right here to stream earlier CPAN Advocacy Chats: https://coaadvocacy.org/advocacy-chats/
This occasion is a part of our digital CPAN Advocacy Chats sequence – quick, month-to-month academic webinars on key most cancers points and the insurance policies that impression them. Every month contains a new subject and particular visitor becoming a member of us. Sufferers, survivors, caregivers, and different most cancers care advocates are all invited to hitch us for these free, interactive, digital occasions!
