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Health insurers, health systems and state and federal agencies partner with Alosa to enhance outpatient care and support informed prescribing decisions.

On behalf of our partners, Alosa’s academic detailers provide frontline clinicians with unbiased, evidence-based, and commercial-free educational materials, enabling our partners to improve key quality metrics such as CMS Star ratings, HEDIS scores, and other quality improvement measures. State and federal legislators and regulators as well as private-sector organizations partner with Alosa to address issues of comparative effectiveness and drug costs.

Analyses conducted by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center found that prescribers’ average opioid dosages significantly decreased following visits from Alosa’s academic detailers. – Alosa’s partnership with the state of Pennsylvania

The Veterans Administration, the Indian Health Service and others turn to Alosa to help develop new clinical topic materials or train their pharmacists in academic detailing techniques. State health departments engage our health policy team to analyze healthcare data from pharmacy claims and state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs).

Alosa academic detailers have made over 100,000 visits to frontline clinicians across thirty-three states.

Partner problems we solve:

Decades of experience nationwide with federal and state partners have given Alosa an in-depth understanding of the unique requirements of government projects. Our program management teams are familiar with the intricacies of grant budgeting and reporting, to ensure that specific deliverables are provided optimally and on schedule.

We understand the importance of providing quality, value-based care for patients. Our customized clinical education materials help clinicians engage with patients about improving their care. Our academic detailing programs can help health systems and accountable care organizations address their quality improvement initiatives and meet established metrics, while giving clinicians the tools they need to optimally treat patients.

Whether complying with CMS Star metrics, HEDIS, or other quality improvement measures, Alosa’s academic detailing programs can have positive impacts on clinician prescribing and maintain cost-savings while improving patient care.

State and federal legislators and regulators as well as private-sector organizations partner with Alosa to address issues of comparative effectiveness and cost. Alosa’s health policy advisors are national experts with years of experience in developing, implementing, and evaluating evidence-based solutions to improve the use and affordability of medications at the system level. Our work helps to address the growing pressures to make medication use affordable, and to ensure access in the face of rising costs. Increasingly complex federal and state regulations shape access to medications and influence how much patients and payers spend on prescription drugs.

Current Partners of Alosa Health

Pennsylvania Department of Aging, Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE)

In our longest-running program, Alosa Health has been training and managing a team of clinical educators throughout Pennsylvania with support from the PACE program for over twenty years to develop modules on three clinical topics each year focusing on the care of older adults and deploys an experienced team of local outreach educators throughout the state.

Aetna

Since 2019, Aetna has supported Alosa Health to develop academic detailing programs and provide educational outreach to clinicians on pain management, opioid use disorder, and Alzheimer’s disease. These programs have been deployed in Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Texas with over 17,000 educational visits.

Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health

For over five years, Alosa has collaborated with several branches of the Delaware Health and Social Services Department through work funded through grants from the Centers for Disease Control’s Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) program as well as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. Our programs targeted pain management and opioid use disorder, with a special focus on the risks of opioid use in adolescents and young adults.

Harris County Public Health, Texas

Alosa is currently providing speaker and CME support for Harris County, Texas, in their efforts to educate providers across the county. We continue to deliver presentations at both in-person and virtual conferences. In addition, Alosa is supplying academic detailing materials on pain management and opioid use disorder for dissemination to local providers.

Indian Health Service (IHS)

Alosa provides academic detailer training and materials development consulting for the IHS. Current topics include pain management, immunizations, and syphilis.

Indiana Department of Health

In 2025, Alosa launched a new partnership with the Indiana Department of Health to deliver academic detailing services statewide. This work supports the state’s harm reduction strategy and is funded through the CDC’s Overdose Data to Action in States (OD2A-S) grant.

Iowa Health and Human Services

In 2025, Alosa began a new partnership with Iowa Health and Human Services and its Division of Behavioral Health. This program was developed in collaboration with Iowa State University and focused on enhancing the capacity of the state’s academic detailing workforce. Alosa provided training in both academic detailing techniques and clinical content related to pain management, opioid use disorder, and stimulant use disorder, as part of the Overdose Data to Action in States CDC grant. The partnership expanded to include training for Iowa’s Peer Recovery Coaches and Navigators, focusing on strategies for effectively engaging and building relationships with healthcare providers.

Kaiser Permanente Health Policy Institute

KPHPI supports the work of Drs. Kesselheim, Rome, and Avorn in studying the interface between medication costs, access, drug patents, and the health care delivery system.

Marion County Public Health Department, Indianapolis, Indiana

In 2025, Alosa began a new partnership with the Marion County Public Health Department to provide academic detailing services on the topics of pain, opioid use disorder and stimulant use disorder to healthcare providers across the county. This initiative is funded through the CDC’s Overdose Data to Action in Local Areas (OD2A-L) grant.

Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Alosa is providing academic detailing services as part of the opioid remediation project. These services will strategically deliver educational modules to support the application of CDC guidelines on opioid prescribing, safe storage, and disposal. Our work will also focus on reducing young adult opioid exposures and developing county-specific materials to inform clinicians about existing resources and programs available for patients.

New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services

In 2023, Alosa was awarded a contract by the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health Services to conduct academic detailing outreach to primary care providers throughout the state via funding from a CDC Overdose Data to Action (OD2A) grant.

University of Arizona

Alosa Health is developing educational training content and materials. These materials will be utilized to educate health care providers on the topics of pain management, opioid use disorder, polysubstance use, patient recovery and application in clinical practice. This content will be integrated into academic detailing program work to be completed in Maricopa County.

Veterans Affairs Academic Detailing Service

The Veterans Health Administration has run the country’s largest academic detailing service, with scores of pharmacists educating prescribers about optimal medication choices throughout the national VA system. Alosa has served as the main external trainer for the VA’s academic detailing program for over 15 years, offering both basic and advanced training on educational outreach to improve medication use. We also provide design and content development for the program’s clinical modules.

Based on pre/post assessments conducted by the VA, academic detailing has improved prescribing practices:

Increased naloxone prescribing
Decreased prescribing of problematic antibiotics
Reduction in benzodiazepine-opioid co-prescribing
Lower antibiotic prescribing for acute viral respiratory infections
Reduction of inappropriate medications across a range of common clinical topics

Previous Partners

Allegheny County Health Department, Pennsylvania – Community Health Workers
Allegheny County Health Department, Pennsylvania
Atrius Health, Massachusetts
Centre for Effective Practice (CEP), Ontario, Canada
HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration (HAHSTA), Washington, DC
Hospital Sisters Health System, Illinois
Louisiana State Opioid Response (LSOR), in partnership with Tulane University
Maine Independent Clinical Information Service (MICIS)
Maryland Department of Health (Baltimore, Maryland)

Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Massachusetts Health Policy Commission (MA HPC)
NACCHO + CDC, Ohio and Delaware
Oklahoma Primary Healthcare Improvement Collaborative
Opioid Prescribing Engagement Network (OPEN), in partnership with University of Michigan
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Shelby County, Tennessee Health Department
South Carolina Pharmacy Foundation
Vermont Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living
Vermont Health Care Association (VHCA)