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FREE Live Webinar: Cost-Effective Alternatives for Commonly Prescribed High-Cost Medications in Hospice
Thursday, April 30, 2020, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Category: Live Webinar

"Cost-Effective Alternatives for Commonly Prescribed High-Cost Medications in Hospice"

Thursday, April 30

 

Speaker: Stephanie Cheng, PharmD, MPH, BCGP

Date/Time: Thursday, April 30, 2020 – 12pm CST

Description:

Controlling medication costs is always a concern for hospices, particularly if a patient gets admitted to hospice with expensive medications and hospice providers want to switch these high-cost medications to cost-effective alternatives without compromising care.   This webinar will focus on commonly prescribed high-cost medications and their potential cost-effective alternatives for the following medication categories: cognitive enhancing agents for dementia, anticoagulants, pain medications, inhaled medications, Entresto and others. We will discuss when to deprescribe or switch to a cost-effective alternative.

Webinar Objectives:
  • Identify when a medication should be deprescribed
  • List the cost-effective alternatives for medications in the following categories: anticoagulants, pain medications, inhaled medications, Entresto and others
  • Determine if the cost-effective alternative is appropriate for a patient and how to switch to the cost-effective alternative

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About Stephanie Chenga

Dr. Stephanie Cheng is a clinical pharmacist with Hospice Pharmacy Solutions. She received a dual Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD) and Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences degree from Purdue University. In addition, she earned a Master of Public Health (MPH) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and completed one year of medical school at the University of Warwick in England. Dr. Cheng finished a Global Health Research Fellowship in the resource-constrained setting of western Kenya through the Academic Model Providing Access To Healthcare (AMPATH), which is a partnership between Indiana University and other American universities, Moi University, and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya. Dr. Cheng has extensive experience in global/public health, research analytics, clinical program development, and drug information and had her work presented at various conferences, such as the Hospice & Palliative Care Federation of Massachusetts (HPCFM) and the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). She also has several research articles published in journals such as The Lancet, Diabetic Medicine, Clinical Diabetes, The Annals of Pharmacotherapy, The Journal of Clinical & Translational Endocrinology, and The International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.