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Study Group: Economic Experts on Pharmacy Benefit Management Services(?)

Council Members in this Study Group: 72

This study group may include physicians, care providers, and researchers specializing in internal medicine, cardiology, oncology, dermatology, emergency medicine, family medicine, neurology, obstetrics-gynecology, psychiatry, radiology, nursing, optometry, genetics, and mental health. It may also include experts knowledgeable on diagnostic labs, disease management, medical devices, long term care, surgery centers, health management, pharma, and biotechnology, among others.

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Leading Experts in this Study Group

Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President, Pembroke Consulting Inc Adam Fein, PhD
Founder & President
Pembroke Consulting Inc

Adam Fein, PhD, is the Founder and President of Pembroke Consulting, Inc., a Philadelphia-based management advisory and business research firm. Dr. Fein is one of the country’s foremost experts on pharmacy economics and the pharmaceutical supply chain. He provides strategic advisory services to a diverse...

Michael Berman
Assistant Vice President
AON Consulting & Insurance Services

Michael Berman is the Assistant Vice President at Aon Consulting. He is an experienced group health actuary with over 10 years of broad insurance and consulting experience. Mr. Berman has extensive expertise in the areas of pharmacy, medical, and disability products. His consulting experience has been...

Gary Allen, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Allen & AssociatesGary Allen
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Allen & Associates

Gary Allen is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Allen and Associates, a retail strategy, marketing, and operations consulting firm. Allen and Associates has completed contracts with banks, LBO groups, wholesalers and retailers in the drug store industry as well as the food industry. Mr. Allen...

Bruce Goldberg
President
Pharmacy Express Services, Inc.

Bruce Goldberg is the Founder and President of Pharmacy Express Services, Inc., a retail chain based in Nebraska. Mr. Goldberg is a pharmacist and has experience in managed care with PBM contracting and general pharmacy network management. He has developed a program which will allow generic and therapeutic...

David Wright, President, Wright Consulting GroupDavid Wright
President
Wright Consulting Group

David Wright is the President at Wright Consulting Group, California, a company providing consulting services to the healthcare sector. He provides marketing support for retail pharmacy chains and independents. Mr. Wright negotiates contracts for purchasing branded and generic pharmaceuticals and puts...

David Zimmerman, PharmD
President/Owner
Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc.

David Zimmerman, PharmD, FASCP, is the President and an Independent Consultant of Doctors of Pharmacy, Inc. Dr. Zimmerman formerly served as the Director of Clinical Affairs at Employee Health Insurance Management, a pharmacy benefit manager. He has over 30 years of experience, specializing in pharmacy...

Aemad Aslam, MBA
President
MindPharma

Aemad Aslam, BPharm, MBA, RPh, is the President of MindPharma, a pharmacy and retail strategy consulting group. Most recently, he has consulted with a PBM, Prime Therapeutics, in Texas, a subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield. He also has served as an Executive Team Leader for Pharmacy at the Target...

Robert Warnock, DPh
Vice President of Pharmacy Services
Golden Clinical Services

Robert Warnock, DPh, CGP, FASCP is Vice President of Pharmacy Services at Golden Clinical Services in Fort Smith, AR, and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Geriatrics at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia. He was previously Regional Clinical Director of the Southeastern...

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Cardinal Health Finally Resolves DEA Issue | 10-09-2008
Author: Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President, Pembroke Consulting Inc

Last week, Cardinal Health (CAH) announced agreements with the Drug Enforcement Adminstration (DEA) regarding its license suspensions for controlled substances. These suspensions had a negative impact on the company's sales and market position. The company even publicly apologized for its actions during...

Cardinal Health Invests in China | 10-06-2008
Author: Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President, Pembroke Consulting Inc

Cardinal Health (CAH) is rapidly growing its Chinese drug distribution business, while expanding manufacturing in India (but not China). This strategy is especially interesting given Cardinal’s planned separation of its supply chain division from clinical & medical products. The era of global wholesalers...

Wal-Mart + Caterpillar: The Future of PBM & Pharmacy? | 10-02-2008
Author: Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President, Pembroke Consulting Inc

Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) announced an innovative new program with Caterpillar (CAT) that provides $0 co-pays on 2,500 generic drugs for 70,000 beneficiaries (employees, retirees, spouses, dependents). As I see it, the deal does not represent a direct frontal assault on PBMs such as Express Scripts (ESRX)...

Wholesaler Impact of a Longs Drug Deal | 09-16-2008
Author: Adam Fein, PhD, Founder & President, Pembroke Consulting Inc

Walgreens (NYSE:WAG) and CVS Caremark (NYSE:CVS) are now in a bidding war for Longs Drug Stores (NYSE:LDG). No matter which company wins, the long-term outcome will probably be negative for AmerisourceBergen (NYSE:ABC), which is Longs’ primary wholesale supplier.  The sale of Longs Drug Stores...

Updating Pricing on Brand to Generic Drugs are Timing and Inventory Issues for Payers and Providers | 09-16-2008
Author: GLG Expert Contributor

Payers in the private sector have historically tried to get providers to pay the generic price for branded multisource products using maximum allowable cost (MAC) terminology in their contracts as soon as the branded drugs have a generic source. This has caused problems for providers that still have...

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Most Common Company Types:

  • Consultancy, Healthcare-Focused
  • Consultancy, Pharma-Focused
  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager, Large >10 M Lives
  • Blue Cross/Blue Shield Non-Profit Health Insurer
  • Employee Benefits Consulting
  • Healthcare Management
  • Individual/Small Consultancy
  • Managed Care Health Insurer, For-Profit
  • Pharmaceutical Benefits Manager, Small <10 M Lives
  • Pharmacy or Drug Store, Chain

Most Common Job Types:

  • President
  • Director
  • Principal
  • Owner
  • Consultant
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Pharmacist - RPh/PharmD
  • Sales
  • Vice President
  • Operations Executive

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