iFHP | International Federation of Health Plans

A huge thank you to Petra Florizoone for closing our Biennial 2024 Conference with a thought-provoking summary of the massive opportunities and potential risks of quantum computing. Truly mind-bending insights! And thank you, Paris, for providing the perfect backdrop for three days of outstanding presentations and invaluable networking. #Biennial2024 #HealthInsurance #Innovation #Networking #Paris👏

iFHP | International Federation of Health Plans would like to honour the achievements of Harold Miller whose thought leadership is changing the way VBHC is approached. This recognition from the Value-Based Health Care Center Europe - News & Events is deeply deserved. Harold has led payment reform workshops for iFHP members in the past, been a speaker at our Biennial Conference, and later this year, Harold will lead another workshop on payment innovation for our members, when we gather for our VBHC study tour in Barcelona. Noone has ever left any of Harold's workshops less than incredibly inspired, and our members typically take home notebooks full of practicable ideas on how to innovate and improve their own payment models. Thank you Harold, enjoy the recognition, and see you in Barcelona in October!

16 May is Global Accessibility Awareness Day - to mark this our CX member network group is meeting virtually with a brilliant speaker Stephen Framil, https://lnkd.in/eE6PJdDy, who is Corporate Global Head of Accessibility at Merck & MSD. Join us for this insightful meeting and discussion session with a visionary leader. Learn about the approach taken at Merck to patient access something all can understand, use and benefit from. iFHP members, do contact us below to receive your invitation which is booked for the following times: 08.00 PCT | 11.00 EST |16.00 UK | 17.00 CET on 16 May.

Many congratulations to iFHP Council of Management member, Greg Adams for being included in Time Magazine's #TIME100 Health list.

It's just six weeks until we gather as a Federation in the beautiful city of Paris...

iFHP members are invited to this resource-rich webinar on Hypertension - dubbed the secret killer by WHO in its 2023 report, that showed that not only is the disease dangerously prevalent, affecting 1 in 3 adults worldwide, but also that approximately 4 out of every 5 people with hypertension are not adequately treated. FTI’s Center for Healthcare Economics and Policy was selected by the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Foundation) to develop resources to make it easier for business to diagnose and manage the cost and impact that hypertension has on workforce health and business risks. In this exclusive session, Kyi-Sin Than (Director) will demonstrate new customizable tools - the Hypertension Budget Impact Model (BIM) and Hypertension Claims Analysis Guide (CAG) - developed by FTI’s Center to estimate medical cost and productivity impact of hypertension in the workforce, a hidden business risk for employers across all regions and industries. Tested with major employers in the USA in collaboration with the National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, they serve as an essential resource for employers to identify these risks in their own workforce and act to reduce them. Funders can use the BIM and CAG to inform discussions and increase engagement with major customers. These adaptable methods offer a transformative opportunity for funders to create value for their clients by providing forecasting and actionable data to move the needle on a highly prevalent disease, and a driver of higher acute disease such as heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease. Join the session as Kyi-Sin Than demonstrates how to use the tools and how they can be applied to encourage earlier diagnosis and support prevention programmes and value-based insurance design that drive down costs to funders in the long term. Meg Guerin-Calvert will join Kyi-Sin Than to provide further insights on how these approaches are adapted by funders and employers across various sectors and regions. An unmissable session - please reach out to receive your joining instructions.

Another big topic for payers - put on the agenda by iFHP | International Federation of Health Plans' Medical Effectiveness & High Cost Drugs Member Network. Registration is still possible for iFHP members - do reach out to us in the comments or per email to receive your webinar link. With thanks to Katherine Saunders, MD from Intellihealth and Treasurer Folwell from North Carolina Public Health, who will be our speakers and who will set the scene for a discussion around solutions that payers can champion to drive the obesity pandemic down, with its associated disease burden and healthcare costs. Thanks also to our Medical Effectiveness & High Cost Drugs Member Network Chairs Anar Dossa, Pharm. D, CDE, Jenni Noble and nkateko msimeki for facilitating the discussion next week.

…and with Friday's visits to Oscar Health and New York Genome Center rounding off the first two weeks of our global Executive Development Programme, just like that it was all over until we meet again for the European trip in September. Thanks to everyone in the group for your energy, engagement and open minds. All our groups are special but you guys did EDP good! Mary Bairan, Skye Daniels, Lauren Daniels, Karsten Dietrich, María Fortún, Penny Jones, Stephanie Ledesma, Unati Mahlati, Amanda Malu, Robert McGrath, Anne O'Connor, Marti Paardekooper, Dr Christopher Robinson, John Thomopoulos, Markus Stehli, Chris Carroll, James O'Reilly, Dave Adams, Thomas Jaklin.

Basking in the sunshine against a backdrop of New York skyscrapers, iFHP members taking a short break from the meeting room at the New York Genome Center where we have been deep-diving into the challenges of the increasing cost AND complexity of oncology treatments and drugs in healthcare systems today, and where we have been dissecting the ways in which health plans may contribute towards solving those challenges. 5 days of learning, analysis, debate are showing once again what you can achieve when a team of dedicated people meets face to face. We will soon start work on a priority list of feasible industry solutions to benefit iFHP members in the near-to-medium future. Thank you Tim Woodman, Harpreet Sarna. Dr Andrew Cottrill, Nicholas Young, Leena Johns, MD, nkateko msimeki, Jenni Noble, Ashley Winterbottom for the deep commitment to think practically about the improvements that are within our collaborative reach. Thank you also Matthew Vogel, Gabrielle Rocque, Sarah Emond, Maria Lowe, Jason Shafrin, Alfred Whitehead, Paul Wardle, Vinnie Nambisan, Harold Miller, Mike Meyer, Okan Ekinci, MD MBA for your input, insight, and facilitation this week. Your impact has been tremendous.

EDP 2024 is up and running and week 1 is done! We have a great group - 19 people from 17 companies and 14 countries. Our thanks to the teams at Medibank, HCF Australia, Finity and Southern Cross Health Insurance for hosting us so brilliantly over the past few days. Today we’re moving onto San Francisco for week 2. With visits to Kaiser Permanente, Oscar Health, Plug and Play Tech Center and New York Genome Center ahead of us, the experience continues…