PHARMACY BENEFITS AND OPERATIONS :

Compliance counseling

• Anti-kickback laws
  
• OIG Guidance
  
• HIPAA and state privacy laws
  
• ERISA
  
• State pharmacy and insurance laws

Contracting

• Pharmacy benefit management agreements
  
• Pharmacy network agreements
  
• Drug purchase agreements
  
• Rebate agreements

Licensing

• Mail order pharmacies
  
• Pharmacy benefit managers
  
• Third party administrators
  
• Utilization review organizations
  
• Preferred provider organizations

EXPERIENCE

AdvancePCS (now Caremark),
Assistant General Counsel
Primary legal support to clinical programs including:

• Appeals
  
• Compliance
  
• Formulary
  
• Pharmaceutical and therapeutics committee
  
• Physician communications
  
• Prior authorization/step therapy
  
• Therapeutic interchanges

Streich Lang, P.A. (now Quarles & Brady Streich Lang, LLP), Associate Attorney

• Practiced in the areas of corporate, securities, and health care

“In the pharmacy benefits world, new ideas come fast and furious. I help my clients develop these ideas into functioning programs that are compliant with the myriad of laws and regulations applicable to them.”

EDUCATION

University of Iowa, 1989
Bachelors of Arts in Anthropology

• Graduated with distinction and honors

Arizona State University, 1992
Juris Doctorate

• Graduated cum laude
  
• Managing Editor, Arizona State Law Journal