“My in-house counsel experience has helped me to see the legal world from the client’s perspective. It is this knowledge that enables me to offer sound and practical legal advice.”
Samantha Masters Brown
Direct: 480-444-1272
Office: 480-444-3500
Fax: 480-444-1270
Office: 480-444-3500
Fax: 480-444-1270
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PRACTICE AREAS
- Medicare Part D
- Medicaid MCO
- Marketplace/Exchange
- Commercial
- Drug discount cards
- Pharmacy networks
- Maximum allowable cost (MAC)
- Prompt pay
- Any willing provider
- Steerage/parity
- Provider credentialing
- Provider complaints/grievances
- Provider directories
- Transaction fees
- State provider contracting mandates
- Formulary requirements
- Utilization review mandates
- PBM state reporting
- Pharmacy benefit management agreements
- Pharmacy network agreements
- Rebate agreements
- Drug purchase agreements
- Pharmacy benefit managers
- Third party administrators
- Utilization review organizations
- Preferred provider organizations
- Mail order pharmacies
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
EDUCATION
University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law, 1991 Juris Doctorate
- Graduated with honors
- Served as managing editor of the UMKC Law Review
University of Missouri – Kansas City, 1988
Bachelors of Arts in English
- Graduated with honors
