The Payer Exchange

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.

Host

Omar Ali

It takes a payer to know a payer’s mind, and Omar’s long experience puts him in an ideal position to unlock critical payer insights. A previous pharmacy & therapeutics payer and adviser to the UK national HTA appraisal body NICE, Omar’s experience encompasses the managed entry of new medicines and health technology appraisals with a deep knowledge of market access, pricing, reimbursement and health economics. For Verpora, Omar manages a global team of experienced pharmacy payers who bring in-depth insights to product value propositions and validation of market access strategy across international launch sequence portfolios. Omar is presently studying for his PhD in Value-Based Contracting.

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