Since 2001, the cost of the country’s opioid crisis is estimated to have exceeded $1 trillion, and is projected to cost an additional $500 billion by 2020. Cost estimates of this crisis helps us understand the full scope of the problem, identify who is most affected by it, and create evidence-based interventions to address the issue. These calculations are a critical starting point for action.

Please join Altarum’s Center for Value in Health Care for a webinar that will present actionable ways to use cost estimates to identify the most impactful ways to address some of our nation’s most pressing health challenges. Topics that we will cover include:

• How reducing childhood lead exposure will result in billions of dollars in benefits for future cohorts of children; and

• The need for community-level evaluation of the opioid burden and the value of alternative interventions to address opioid misuse.

We will introduce Altarum’s Value of Health tool, which measures the long-term economic and health impacts of initiatives to improve public health. We will also discuss future enhancements and applications of the tool, which powered the results of the childhood lead analysis as well as our recent national estimates of the magnitude of the opioid crisis.

Co-Presenters:

• Len Nichols, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and Ethics
  George Mason University

• Rebecca Morley, MSPP, Consultant
  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Moderator:

• Corey Rhyan, MPP, Senior Analyst
  Altarum Center for Value in Health Care

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