Joaquin Castillo Arana Email & Phone Number

California, United States

South San Francisco, California, Us

• Manage contracting, operations, and compliance for Limited Distribution Indirect Sales• Oversee management of ~500 accounts for pharmacy evaluation, contracting, and compliance• Developed and delivered overhaul of indirect distribution sales channel including;• • • • Data validation and management• • • • Design and implementation of systems to manage data and work flow• • • • Creating, codifying, and implementing standardized, efficient and compliant processes• Manage multiple technical and business teams in coordinated manner to deliver organizationally relevant data to manage customer network• Managing and overseing the ongoing validation and management of sales channel data • Draft, negotiate and execute contracts for multiple customer types• Oversee approvals for Limited/Closed Networks, Standard Product Approvals and Discretionary Approvals• Overse and manage online, account facing systems• Ensure operational compliance for program processes • Evaluate contractually non-compliant sales for contract and sales reconciliation• Support organizational and federal counterfeit and safety investigations• Professional development of team members as well • Integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in ongoing business development and professional development discussions

South San Francisco, California, Us

• Strategize, draft, negotiate and execute contracts for national payors, specialty pharmacies and pharmacy benefit manager accounts• Lead a team of internal stakeholders for Pricing, Strategy, Government Reporting, Fair Market Value, Analytics, Compliance, US Drug Safety and Legal to drive the delivery of national commercial and Medicare contracts• Draft, negotiate and implement corporate pharmaceutical agreements for reporting, distribution, bonafide service fees, formulary rebates and other contracted price concessions as well as unilateral and bilateral Confidential Disclosure Agreements• Develop, strategize, and collaborate on RFP bid submissions with an array of internal stakeholders• Oversee the adherence to government fair market value compliance while executing organizational and brand strategy in a diverse and evolving industry• Contract Manager liaison for Agiloft based Contract Management System• Draft new agreement types for Direct Distribution and Specialty Pharmacy Services

San Francisco, Ca, Us

• Manage and execute professional fee agreements for Individual Deals with non-contracted payors• Lead clinic and department contract education and process improvement • Negotiate non-contracted payer terms and reimbursement rates • Process improvement of Facility, Transplant and Professional Fee Individual Deals• Reimbursement rate analysis of contracted health plans• Utilization analysis of payor volume and procedures

San Francisco, California, Us

• Manage the Medical Staff Credentialing process for the UCSF Departments of Surgery, Neurosurgery, • • OB/GYN, Ophthalmology, Orthopedic Surgery, Otolaryngology and Urology• Ensuring all initial and reapointments for high profile and high priority departments meet regulatory requirements for practicing healthcare in the state of California• Maintaining a high standard for provider enrollment that meets audit standards for health plans and regulator agencies.• Manage and participate in-person and electronic audits of delegated commercial health plan contracts which ensure compliance with NCQA standards.• Prepare agenda, minutes and flag reports for the monthly UCSF Credentials Committee, to review incumbent appointments and reappointments.

San Francisco, California, Us

• Manage Operational workflow and data integration, system implementation, database management and report generation for over 2,000 health care providers and their enrollment in all UCSF contracted health plans.• Privileging of Advanced Healthcare Practitioners for technical/hospital based services and billing in accordance with UCSF and government regulatory statutes.• Managing health plan, state and federal credentialing audits of the UCSF medical staff • Work in tandem with billing agents, clinical department leadership, contracting and IT to manage credentialing specific claims adjudication.• Lead managed care team and coordinate departmental integration of privileging and managed care divisions of UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Medical Group.

• Researching topical demographically pertinent stories and news for the LGBT Community• Coordinating camera crew, press access, security clearances for entire crew and creating story boards for on air television segments• Scripting, voice overs, editing and final submission of segments• Credentialed media access secured through the city and county of San Francisco

• Media/analyst outreach• Client communications• PR plans drafting • Client reporting (press coverage, pr plan updates, timeline targets, messaging updates)

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Draft press releases• Schedule client meetings• Draft client communications• Work with PR teams for client deliverables

New York, Ny, Us

Public and Media relations internship for the station, talent and shows of ZDTV including;• Press kit production• Press release drafting• Show promotions

Masters Of Public Administration, Health Services Administration

Ba, Communication Studies