PHARMACY BENEFITS AND OPERATIONS:

COMPLIANCE COUNSELING

• Medicare Part D
  
• Drug discount cards
  
• Prompt pay laws
  
• Any willing provider laws
  
• State provider contracting mandates
  
• State pharmacy laws

CONTRACTING

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

LICENSING

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

EXPERIENCE

AdvancePCS (now Caremark),
Vice President, Assistant General Counsel

Primary legal support for pharmacy networks, including

• Review and negotiation of retail pharmacy contracts
  
• Pharmacy disputes
  
• Pharmacy terminations
  
• Pharmacy audit-related issues
  
• Pharmacy network programs
  
• Plan pharmacy network issues

Primary legal support for mail order pharmacy operations

• Pharmacy operations
  
• Compliance with pharmacy laws and licensing requirements
  
• Pharmacy mail order programs
  
• Review and negotiation of contracts with pharmaceutical wholesalers

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

• Practiced in areas of corporate bankruptcy and reorganization

Cohen & Cotton, PC, Attorney

• Practiced in area of complex commercial litigation

“My extensive law firm and in-house experience has helped me to develop the critical skill of balancing legal issues with business considerations.”

EDUCATION

University of Missouri - Kansas City, 1988
Bachelors of Arts in English

• Graduated with honors

University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law, 1991 Juris Doctorate

• Graduated with honors
  
• Served as managing editor of the UMKC Law Review