Community Oncology Conference

Ricky Newton, CPADirector of Financial Services and Operations and TreasurerApril 24, 2015

Background

▪25-35% of all new drugs being made for oncology patients are coming out as oral drugs

▪Patients need a safe, reliable, accessible and affordable environment that is tightly integrated into their overall cancer care

▪Community clinics over the years have opened up facilities within their clinics to provide these services instead of the patients having to rely on specialty pharmacies and other retail pharmacies

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Oral Drugs Classified by Indication

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▪Foster oral cancer therapy tightly integrated into cancer patient treatment at the site of care. Specifically, COPA will:• Help practices enhance outcomes of cancer patients treated with oral

medications ▸ Focus on quality, efficiency, and financial viability

• Establish quality standards, best practice benchmarks, operating procedures, and other clinical/operating processes

• Provide a forum for practices to share best practices and information, especially relating to state pharmacy issues

• Develop the quality/value proposition of “integrated oral cancer treatment” for payers (Medicare, private, self insured)

• Educate pharmaceutical companies on the clinical/value proposition of “integrated oral cancer treatment”

COPA Mission

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Examples of Specialty Pharmacies

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▪Create standard national quality measures

▪Establish a way to measure quality in a tangible way • Similar to the oncology medical home initiative

▪Publish an independent report/analysis documenting patient experience of receiving oral cancer drugs in practice versus specialty pharmacy

▪Develop the COPA website

▪Create information sharing on the closed COPA list serve

Immediate Priorities

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Priorities Specific to Patients

▪Library of patient assistant programs for all oral chemotherapy and supportive care drugs

▪Library of patient focused educational materials on each oral drug

▪Patient focused educational material highlighting a practice’s dispensing program

▪Blog for patients to be able to ask questions of other patients on oral drugs or the ability to write their stories and experiences to share with other

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▪Story of my brother in law’s wife’s mother with Thalidomide for multiple myeloma over 15 years ago

▪Rose will be following up with each of you in the next session about how to jump on board and help us initiate this effort