Most of your competitors treat aggregate spend as a reporting obligation, but what if you could turn it into a core strategy? Aggregate spend programs are sitting on insights that commercial, medical, and finance teams desperately need but rarely see. In an era of shrinking margins and rising skepticism about industry influence, organizations that can turn spend data into trust-building, precision targeting, and smarter KOL strategy gain a real edge. Learn how to reposition your reporting engine as a strategic asset that executives rely on, not just a regulatory cost of doing business.
- Learn practical methods for using spend trends to refine HCP segmentation, targeting, and KOL strategy
- Explore dashboards and metrics that resonate with commercial, medical, and executive leadership
- Identify quick wins you can implement in the next 90 days to demonstrate value internally
For decades, pharmacy benefit management has been defined by opacity that made it difficult for plan sponsors to understand the true cost of prescription drugs. What has changed is not just public scrutiny, but fiduciary expectations. With the emergence of ERISA class-action lawsuits focused on pharmacy pricing—particularly generic drugs—transparency is no longer a buzzword; it is a wake-up call for plan fiduciaries.
Explore how Cost Plus pharmacy pricing offers a more transparent and defensible approach to prescription drug purchasing, and how self-funded plans can use transparent pricing to spend prudently, reduce fiduciary risk, support local pharmacy infrastructure, and rebuild trust with employees.
- Identify fiduciary risk in PBM pricing under ERISA/DOL guidance, grounded in recent litigation signals
- Learn a practical, step-by-step procedural prudence checklist used to evaluate Cost Plus providers with defensible documentation
- Communicate the value story: transparent pricing that protects budgets while sustaining trusted community pharmacy access
- Connect local pharmacy stability to adherence, outcomes, and SDoH impact—especially in underserved areas—aligning fiduciary oversight with responsibility goals
- Identify the highest-friction points in the transparency life cycle
- Map where automation creates the greatest time and risk reduction
- Compare real-world automation use cases
- Define the governance guardrails required for AI-enabled workflow changes
- Build a simple ROI model to translate hours saved per cycle into capacity, cost impact, and control improvement
Failed records and escalating disputes are not just operational headaches; they are bright red signals of systemic risk that executives cannot afford to ignore. Teams are burning countless hours on rework that could be avoided with better triage, smarter workflows, and targeted upstream fixes. Roll up your sleeves and pressure-test practical remediation approaches that free capacity and dramatically reduce your error rate going forward.
- Practice triaging failed records and dispute cases using real-world examples
- Share and compare remediation workflows that actually reduce future rework
- Identify upstream process changes that have the biggest impact on data quality
- Walk away with at least one template/checklist to implement immediately
- Benchmark the biggest requirement deltas across the U.S. and priority global regimes
- Apply governance models that clearly assign data ownership, role accountability, and regional sign-off to prevent last-minute scrambles
- Leave with a 90-day action plan to align U.S. and ex-U.S. data, controls, and submission readiness
- Map the key risk points across DTC and DTP campaigns (traditional, digital, social, and telehealth)
- Understand how transparency and spend data can amplify or mitigate DTC compliance risk
- Practice handling high-risk influencer/telehealth scenarios in an interactive setting
- Design or refine a DTC oversight model that gives compliance a real seat at the table
- Distinguish compliance completion from audit defensibility and monitoring maturity
- Create a risk-based sampling plan that surfaces true exposure
- Define KPIs that matter in audits
- Turn findings into operational fixes
- Build an executive-ready audit-readiness scorecard to communicate progress and gaps
Fair Market Value is being tested like never before as HCP rate negotiations intensify, global consistency expectations rise, and Non-HCP engagement expands to influencers, advocates, and creators. Explore practical, defensible strategies for consistent rate application, smarter rate refreshes, and tiering models that hold up under internal scrutiny, HCP pushback, and audit review. Leave with a clearer playbook for modern compensation decisions that protect compliance, credibility, and reputation.
- Apply FMV principles across HCP and Non-HCP engagements
- Navigate HCP rate negotiations and pushback
- Strengthen global rate consistency and refresh cycles
- Build defensible tiering and exception pathways
- Evaluate influencer compensation with lower risk
- Improve documentation for audit readiness
HCP engagement models are evolving faster than many FMV frameworks and monitoring programs can keep up. From traditional speaker programs to digital KOLs and influencer clinicians, regulators are watching for overuse, outliers, and subtle patterns of undue influence. Strengthen your approach so engagement strategies remain competitive while standing up to internal and external challenge.
- Refresh your understanding of FMV expectations across different engagement types
- Learn how peers are handling FMV and documentation for digital KOLs and influencer clinicians
- Explore risk indicators for over-utilization, outlier payments, and inappropriate targeting
- Identify practical controls to align engagement strategy with compliance and transparency
Monitoring programs are drowning in volume, fragmented data, and manual follow-up, exactly where risk loves to hide. Spotlight real-world AI and automation teams are using today to improve signal quality, detect issues earlier, and standardize escalation and documentation without adding headcount.
- Identify monitoring use cases where automation reliably improves signal-to-noise
- Explore workflows for cross-system data stitching, rule-based triage, and anomaly detection
- Define governance, ownership, and change management needed for sustainable adoption
- Create a practical modernization plan for the next 12–36 months
Each Open Payments cycle exposes the same painful weaknesses, and regulators are running out of patience for repeat offenders. With audit scrutiny intensifying, gaps in data quality, timeliness, and documentation now translate directly into reputational risk and leadership anxiety. Use the hard lessons from 2025 to harden your controls, close chronic issues, and meet the next cycle from a position of strength.
- Identify the most common issues from the latest Open Payments cycle and their root causes
- Learn strategies for reducing disputes and improving data quality upstream
- Build an action plan to address your top 2–3 recurring issues before the next submission
Regulators increasingly expect transparency to be a shared enterprise responsibility, not a niche project owned by one overstretched team. Without a clear operating model, critical tasks fall through the cracks, finger-pointing flourishes, and remediation efforts stall. Redraw the lines of accountability now so you can operate with clarity, speed, and unified support when the next issue hits.
- Map your current transparency operating model and identify gaps in accountability
- Learn how peers are structuring committees, roles and responsibilities, and data ownership
- Explore KPIs and metrics that promote the right behaviors across functions
- Draft or refine a RACI or charter you can take back to your organization
- Inventory and quantify your team's core transparency activities and pain points
- Translate risk and rework into language that resonates with finance and senior leadership
- Learn storylines and slides peers have used to unlock headcount and tools
- Leave with a rough outline or template for your own internal business case


















