Medical Director Services

Argenta Has Strong Payer Relationships

Argenta Advisors has established solid working relationships with payer medical directors and decision-makers. We utilize this network to assist clients looking to garner timely and important feedback on the reimbursement pathway for their products. Working with Argenta allows our clients to interact with many of the different types of stakeholders and decision-makers in the U.S., across all types of health plans, including emerging models such as Accountable Care Organizations.

Learn from Actual Decision-Makers

Argenta’s Medical Director Services come in multiple forms and can range from over-the-phone Medical Directory Discussions to written Medical Director Surveys to more extensive and interactive real-time, payer Technology Insight Panels. Argenta can help you address topics such as designing clinical trials for reimbursement, positioning study data, developing value proposition messaging, or even providing feedback on product creation via a formal, in-person, double-blinded payer focus group.

The Right Information Drives Results

Argenta’s Medical Director Services are driven by insight from health plan decision-makers. This intelligence facilitates the creation of effective reimbursement strategies for medical technologies by providing critical insights into the technology assessment process and identifying the anticipated coverage challenges for a product or service.

Medical Director Consulting Services

In addition to working with plan medical directors, Argenta’s in-house Medical Director can help conduct a coverage or evidence gap analysis for technologies. Similar to the work performed by today’s technology assessment groups (e.g., BCBSA, NICE and Hayes), this service can help clients anticipate payer response to the technology and, if needed, to guide the development of additional data.

Argenta’s Experience Can Help You Maximize the Value of Talking to Decision-Makers

Each program that Argenta conducts has a moderator/facilitator and at least one other senior management team member from Argenta’s Strategic Reimbursement division. Argenta’s team has been highly successful in driving coverage policies across all payer types, including Medicare, Medicaid, commercial plans, workers’ compensation and self-insured plans. We work cooperatively with key opinion leaders, professional societies and stakeholders to build workable and scalable payer strategies, along with delivering positive coverage decisions on a national and local basis. Our reputation reflects the experience, contacts and resources we employ to craft and deliver effective clinical and economically valuable proposition messages to payers.