Session 8: Helping Improve Patient Access to Medications

Wednesday, July 13, 2022, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician (1.00 hours)

Date and Time: Session 8: Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 @ 12:30pm-1:45pm PST 
Zoom Webinar ID: 976 0959 8851 
Webinar Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97609598851

Talk Title: Helping Improve Patient Access to Medications

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1. Participants will learn best practices for: “reading” insurance formularies, prior authorizations, coupon use, regional and pharma sponsored patient assistance programs

After registering, learners can access the OnDemand content available following these steps:

1. Locate "MyCME" on your screen
2. Select "Tests"
3. Locate the preferred session of "OT2207 CardioMetabolic ECHO" and click "Pre-Test" to begin. Additional instructions are contained within each session.
4. In order to receive a certificate, you must complete the evaluation following the post-test.

Accreditation with Commendation: The University of Washington School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation: The University of Washington School of Medicine designates this other activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Each session is worth 1.0 credit. You can participate in the live, enduring material and/or both. You can only claim credit once per session (live vs recorded).  In order to receive credit, learners must attend the live webinar OR watch the recorded content.  For webinar recordings, learners must answer pre/post test questions with a 70% pass rate to receive credit.  All learners must complete the post-session assessment to claim credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 24 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the University of Washington School of Medicine’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

ACPE Accreditation

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education. Each session is worth 1.0 CPE. To receive credit you must complete the post-session evaluation for each session you attend. At the conclusion of the series, participants should be able to combat clinical and medication inertia around cardiometabolic therapy.

ACPE activity number: 0130-9999-22-323-H04-P; 0130-9999-22-323-L04-P

 

Lorena Alarcon-Casas Wright, M.D., is a board-certified physician at the UW Diabetes Institute, The Endocrine Clinic at UWMC-Roosevelt and the Endocrine/Diabetes Clinic at Harborview and a UW associate professor of Medicine and Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition. Dr Wright is a member of the UW Medicine Diversity Council and the Clinic Director of the LatinX Diabetes Clinic at the SLU Diabetes Institute.

Dr. Wright is passionate about decreasing healthcare disparities and increasing awareness on diversity, equity and inclusion in medical education and health care. She is convinced that treatment success is the result of education, motivation, team-work and diligence. Providing care that is culturally sensitive is important to success. 

Dr. Wright earned her M.D. at the University of Veracruz in Mexico. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Endocrinology/Diabetes/Metabolism by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Her clinical and research interests focus on all areas of diabetes care including diabetes in ethnic minorities. Dr. Wright is also passionate about transgender care.

Speaker Disclosures: Lorena Casas-Wright, MD: No Disclosures

Planner Disclosure(s):

• Nicole Ehrhardt, MD is on the Advisory Board for Dexcom and NovoNordisk; Education Grant from NovoNordisk and Merck; Investigator with Dexcom
• Savitha Subramanian, MD is on the Advisory Board for Abbott Diabetes Care; former Advisory Board for Akcea Therapeutics and Amarni
• Laura Montour, MD: No Disclosures
  
• Nayan Arora, MD: No Disclosures

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of Washington School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

We would like to thank NovoNordisk for providing an unrestricted educational grant to support the Cardiometabolic ECHO Program.