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Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

The company contracts with Neuro psychiatric hospitals across the country to provide pharmacy services. I with at Neuro Psychiatric Hospital of Indianapolis.

United States

Working with Commercial accounts to manage their pharmacy benefit.

Irvine, Ca

• Opened first West Coast office in Irvine, California, managing over 100,000 Medicare and Medicaid lives for five health plans.• Managed benefit design, edits, clinical programs and operational components of a Medicare Part D and MediCal pharmacy benefit.• Balanced client priorities with PerformRx's corporate resources, utilizing strong project management skills.• Promoted and upsold new tools which assisted clients with better budgeting of limited prescription dollars.

One of 23 pharmacies owned by NashFinch, Inc. in multiple Midwest states operating in a variety of grocery store settings.Successfully implemented upgrade to pharmacy computer system and automated ordering/receiving.Highest generic contract purchasing percentage of all the stores and highest generic dispensing rate.Created an intern program for pre-pharmacy students from St.Olaf College in Northfield.

This consulting firm provides services to healthcare, information technology, and pharmaceutical companies to grow revenue and improve the financial performance of their products and services.Successfully conducted a request for proposal process (RFP) for one of the largest managed care companies in Indiana, to replace their current pharmacy benefit provider (PBM). After initial mailing there were twelve companies to process through a matrix to allow the selection of the best fit for the HMO.

Most requested pharmacist by clients based on retail knowledge, adaptability, and customer service.Selected to train other pharmacists on computer system in a local retail chain.

Long term care pharmacy servicing over 75 nursing homes, assisted living facilities and group homes including clinical pharmacy services and IV services.Only pharmacist asked to supervise twenty data entry technicians.The most productive pharmacist with 800 new orders checked per day with an accuracy rate of 99.9%.

Pharmacy benefit management consultant firm specializing in helping plan sponsors choose a PBM, design a pharmacy benefit plan, monitoring plan and PBM performance and auditing their results.Worked with a closed model union owned pharmacy in Illinois to secure a better wholesaler contract for its drugs, for a total annual savings of $1.9 million.Redesigned the union pharmacy whose volume exceeded 1500 prescriptions daily, for a more efficient workflow that reduced staffing requirements, allowed new safeguards for prescription accuracy. Resultant annual savings from this redesign was $500,000.

Maintained inventory variance at less than 1% annually, as pharmacy manager.Increased daily prescription volume by 25% through physician contacts and customer service.

Pharmacy benefit management company with over 100 million lives using benefits designed and maintained by Diversified. Focused on Blue Cross plans nationwide and large employer groups. Lead the team that acted as the pharmacy department for a local 1.2 million life HMO.Created a new tiered level of benefits designed to be customer friendly and cost effective.Developed and implemented a pharmacy report card for network physicians resulting in a 10% decrease in drug spend through formulary compliance and use of generics.

First pharmacy director for Anthem and established the pharmacy department to oversee the performance and economic health of the prescription benefits in the HMO, PPO and indemnity market segments.Developed and contracted the first managed care pharmacy network in West Virginia.Established telecommunications negotiated rates and terms for each pharmacy and set up links to process claims through the PBM.Created the formulary for this West Virginia healthcare company and designed the pharmacy benefits for the public employees of the state, their first major client.