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Episode 8: Launching Lumara

Episode 8 brings the series together with a pragmatic launch integration plan: how a specialty biologic turns strategy into day-one execution. We outline the success factors that consistently separate winners: clear, payer-oriented messaging; layered evidence with early RWE; real-time competitive response; cross-TA access innovation; and tight alignment across Access, HEOR, Medical, and Field.

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Episode 5: Scaling the Access Wall

Episode 5 examines how real-world evidence (RWE) is now the currency of access decisions. Beyond trials, payers want proof in routine care—on exacerbations, persistence, and healthcare utilization—and they use it for formulary positioning and renewal negotiations.

Episode 4: Message Battles

In Episode 4 we'll explore how existing brands in the Severe Asthma market are positioning their value stories to payers — in both economic and clinical terms. The episode will examine the structure, tone, and content of competitor access messaging, including AMCP dossiers, value decks, and in-field conversations. Lumara’s team must develop a differentiated and credible payer narrative — one that can cut through entrenched positioning and resonate with pharmacy and medical directors.

Episode 3: Patient Support Showdown

Episode 3 zeroes in on the first-fill moment and early adherence—where HUB design, copay policy, and specialty-pharmacy handoffs can make or break momentum. We unpack the essentials of high-performing programs (benefits investigation, real-time PA tracking, FRM support, nurse case management, and digital enrollment) and spotlight where patients and offices most often stall.

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Episode 2 dives into the real engine of access: how plans decide who gets preferred, who gets blocked, and what it really costs to move tiers.

Lumara Series Episode 1: Meet Lumara

In Episode 1, we introduce Lumara—a fictional, once-monthly biologic with dual IL-5 and IL-13 inhibition—poised to enter a crowded severe-asthma market.

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Patient Support Showdown — HUBs, Copays, and Frictionless Starts

You’ll hear how leading severe-asthma brands approach onboarding today, what providers say about enrollment friction, and why time to first dose—often 10–18 days—has become the metric that moves share. We also explore practical ways Lumara could streamline starts without adding risk: single-page digital enrollment, transparent SP assignment, tiered concierge options, and embedded TTFD benchmarks.

What you’ll learn

How HUB, copay, and SP integration shape initiation and persistence
The top delay drivers—and how to design them out of the workflow
Where FRMs and nurse case managers deliver outsized impact
Practical guardrails: compliance, inducement risk, and data stewardship

Featured segments

Frictionless Starts: Designing the HUB That Works
Where Patients Get Lost—and How to Catch Them
Playbook in Practice: KPIs, TTFD, and Office Experience