The Payer Exchange
The Payer Exchange
Podcast Description
Unscripted conversations with the people shaping drug pricing, access, and reimbursement around the world.Hosted by Omar Ali, Head of Payers at Verpora, The Payer Exchange brings you honest, off-the-record discussions with payers working at the frontline of healthcare funding. Each episode features a one-to-one conversation with a payer from a different country—exploring local challenges, emerging trends, and contrasting approaches to some of the biggest questions in market access.From horizon scanning to contracting, rare disease to real-world evidence, we ask the same core questions—but get different answers every time.This isn’t a panel. It’s not a pitch. It’s a rare chance to hear what really drives decision-making—direct from those making the decisions.
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The podcast delves into critical themes surrounding global healthcare funding, including horizon scanning, indication-based pricing, and rare diseases. Each episode addresses specific issues faced by payers, such as Italy's approach to rare disease access, Germany's management of obesity drug pricing, and Spain's regulatory reforms in healthcare, highlighting the nuances of how different countries tackle similar challenges.
Unscripted conversations with the people shaping drug pricing, access, and reimbursement around the world.
Hosted by Omar Ali, Head of Payers at Verpora, The Payer Exchange brings you honest, off-the-record discussions with payers working at the frontline of healthcare funding. Each episode features a one-to-one conversation with a payer from a different country—exploring local challenges, emerging trends, and contrasting approaches to some of the biggest questions in market access.
From horizon scanning to contracting, rare disease to real-world evidence, we ask the same core questions—but get different answers every time.
This isn’t a panel. It’s not a pitch. It’s a rare chance to hear what really drives decision-making—direct from those making the decisions.
In the final episode of Season 3, Omar Ali speaks with Ross Margulies of Manatt Health about the policy and legal changes reshaping US pharmaceutical pricing and their consequences far beyond the United States.
They discuss Most Favoured Nation (MFN) and international reference pricing, GUARD and GLOBE, the legal durability of current reforms, the move to formal CMS rulemaking, Part B medicines and provider incentives. Ross also explains why manufacturers are already rethinking launch sequencing and market access planning across global markets as US policy becomes increasingly connected to international prices.
Share your perspective on The Payer Exchange
We’re always looking to hear from current and former payers, healthcare decision-makers and policy experts from around the world.
If you’d like to take part in a future episode of The Payer Exchange or join Verpora’s global payer network, get in touch with Omar Ali, Verpora’s Head of Payers, by email [email protected] or via DM on Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/alipha
About The Payer Exchange
The Payer Exchange is a podcast from Verpora exploring the people, policies and decisions shaping pharmaceutical market access around the world. Hosted by Omar Ali, Verpora’s Head of Payers, each episode features an in-depth one-to-one conversation with payers, policy experts and healthcare leaders, offering direct insight into pricing, reimbursement, access and the practical pressures shaping healthcare systems and pharmaceutical strategy.
At Verpora, we’re all about access strategy, and The Payer Exchange was developed as a way to share discussions Verpora is having every day with payers, policy experts and life science organisations.
Verpora helps pharmaceutical companies bridge the gap between the value of innovation and the realities of healthcare funding. Through our global payer network, evidence, data and strategic market access expertise, we support better decisions, stronger partnerships and, ultimately, better patient access.
If today’s conversation has raised questions about your own challenges in market access, pricing, value-based agreements or innovative contracting, or you’d simply like to continue the discussion, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Visit verpora.com to connect with our team, discover more episodes of The Payer Exchange and explore more specialist, on-demand content.
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