Joseph De Luca Email and Phone Number

As the Director, Reimbursement Business Management I'm responsible for hiring, managing and leading an Immunology access and reimbursement field team of approximately 50 employees at Regeneron. As the Director I am responsible for recruiting, leading, coaching and managing 5 District Managers who are responsible for hiring, leading, coaching and managing teams of 10 Field Reimbursement Managers. The team is responsible for ensuring optimal access, effective pull-through, reimbursement services and program support in collaboration with the patient support services organization.

Responsible for creating and implementing strategies and tactics to secure and maintain optimal reimbursement and market access for all Dupixent indications, with a focus on dermatology.Major responsibilities include but were not limited to pre launch planning for several new indications and devices. Development and preparation of price and contracting strategy, payer value proposition development, payer positioning and message development and leading of sales force pull-through tactics, stakeholder engagement planning, patient and physician services coordination, HEOR initiatives, and public affairs alignment.Worked closely with Sr. Leadership of BU and all functions as well as the Senior Director Market Access, alliance business partners and cross-functional staff including brand marketing, health outcomes, medical and market research, trade, account management and new product development to ensure market access strategic alignment with business partner projects, strategies and tactics. As well as to gain input on payer work-streams.As a U.S. market access strategy team member for Dupixent, I worked closely with global counterparts and contribute to ex-U.S. informational exchanges, project collaborations and annual business planning.

Aa the Director, of Field Access and Reimbursement I was responsible for hiring, managing and leading an Inflammation access and reimbursement field team of 12 employees across the US at Regeneron. The Director recruited, lead, coached and managed the team who overlapped with two different field organizations. The team was responsible for ensuring optimal access, effective pull-through, reimbursement services and program support in collaboration with the patient support services organization. I created and lead the development of a new way of working, strategic intent and tactical execution which lead to improvements in the time to fill, increased total first commercial fills and total commercial fills. We improved and maintained collaborative partnerships with the out of network and in network pharmacy community to ensure the customer and end user received optimal customer service and support.