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Seasoned Payment and Delivery Expert Joins Avalere
Fred Bentley, an experienced leader in payment and delivery system reform, has joined Avalere’s Center for Payment & Delivery Innovation. Fred will supplement our existing deep expertise in provider strategy and provide analytic and strategic support on issues related to care delivery.
Avalere Welcomes Two Senior Healthcare Professionals
Sheila Fifer, PhD, and Randel Richner, BSN, MPH, have joined Avalere as senior advisors.
Avalere Joins Inovalon
We are excited to share with you the next phase in Avalere’s journey.
Avalere’s Vantage Care Positioning System Receives 2015 LINK Innovation Award
Avalere won second place in the 2nd Annual LINK Innovation Competition for its Vantage Care Positioning System (CPS).
Avalere Senior Vice President Is a Formal Member of USP NLEC Panel
Avalere senior vice president, Gillian Woollett, has been appointed to the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention’s Nomenclature and Labeling Expert Committee (NLEC).
Lack of Quality Measures for Cancers and Other Serious Diseases Limits Medicare’s Ability to Pay for Value
A new Avalere assessment of the quality measures landscape shows that many important medical conditions are not fully represented in Medicare pay-for-quality programs, which limits Medicare's ability to pay for value.
Medicare Drug Plans Favor Generic Opioids that Lack Abuse Deterrent Properties
New research from Avalere finds that despite the innovation of abuse-deterrent properties and labeling for branded opioids, Medicare Part D plan coverage for these products is declining rapidly.
Changes in Life Sciences Unit at Avalere Health
Avalere Health today announced the hiring of Nancy McGee as executive vice president to head its thriving life sciences business unit.
Avalere Partners with AMCP
Avalere director, Leigh Ann Bruhn, was recently named to the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy’s (AMCP) Corporate Member Council.
Avalere Director to Serve on CMS MEDCAC Panel
Avalere director Dr. Lakshman Ramamurthy will be a panelist on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), which will meet on Tuesday, March 24.
Two Seasoned Healthcare Professionals Join Avalere
Lisa Latts, MD, and Rick Smith join Avalere's team.
Avalere Health and the CMTP Partner to Advance the Adoption of ERPs After Surgery Across the Country
In 2015, Avalere Health and the Center for Medical Technology Policy will work together to develop the Partnership for Enhanced Recovery to promote broader adoption of proven protocols in the surgical space across a number of US hospitals.
Claire Sheahan Joins Avalere Health as Senior VP and Head of Avalere Communications
Sheahan will lead Avalere Communications, a rapidly growing group within Avalere Health that brings deep substantive and innovative strategic thinking to healthcare communications.
Partnership Expands Avalere’s Reach into EU Markets
Avalere-Pope Woodhead collaboration a natural fit to deliver global market services
Avalere Health Names Lindy Hinman its New Senior Vice President of Health Plans and Managed Care
Avalere Health announced today that Lindy Hinman will be re-joining the company as senior vice president, leading its Health Plans and Managed Care Practice.
Avalere Health Expands Health Policy Expertise
New team members add depth and experience across multiple health policy issues.
CMS Appoints Lakshman Ramamurthy as Industry Representative to MEDCAC
Lakshman Ramamurthy, PhD, director of FDA & Regulatory Policy at Avalere Health, has been appointed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to serve as an industry representative to the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC).
The Three Rs of Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine: Regulatory, Research, and Reimbursement
Avalere will be hosting a conference on the future of market access for diagnostics and personalized medicine.
Avalere Heads to ISPOR with Panels and Presentations
Many of Avalere's experts are heading north to Canada for ISPOR's 19th Annual International Meeting, where we'll have several panel discussions and poster presentations.
Avalere Forms New Partnership With Michael Waitzkin from Catawba Consulting
Avalere is pleased to announce a new formalized collaboration with Michael “Buz” Waitzkin.