This week, I had the opportunity to represent the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation at #AMCPNexus 2023 hosted by AMCP where I shared the Foundation’s recommendations on how payers and providers can work together to optimize cystic fibrosis care and management.
Along with our educational partner, Impact Education, LLC, we brought together CF community members, advocates, clinicians, and payers to identify the best ways to interact with each other to overcome barriers to care and treatments faced by so many living with CF. Emergent themes included:
Improving communication between providers and payers.
Improving prior authorization intervals for CF-specific therapies and bundling those therapies under one prior authorization if possible.
Establishing electronic prior authorizations, communicating its value, and encouraging its use.
Instituting coverage criteria that align with current evidence and consensus guidelines, including those coordinated through CF Foundation and widely used by CF care centers.
To learn more about this multi-pronged initiative and the resulting best practices paper, email me at odieni@cff.org.
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