Current Legislative and Regulatory Issues in Pharmacy 2010
Track:
Educational Sessions (CE)
Program Code: 125-L03
Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Location:
TCC - Ballroom A, 1st Floor
MEETING PROGRAMMING ASSOCIATE:
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Justine Coffey, JD, LLM, Director, Section of Home, Ambulatory, and Chronic Care Practitioners, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Justine Coffey currently works as the director of federal regulatory affairs for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. In this position, she advocates ASHP’s positions before federal agencies whose regulatory and rulemaking authority impacts on health-system pharmacy. Previously, Ms. Coffey worked as a consultant, providing health policy consulting services to individual clients and advising state government agencies on federal and state laws, regulations, and policies impacting on Medicaid and other state programs. From 2002 to 2005, she worked for the American Pharmacists Association, first as a policy and regulatory writer, and then as a senior policy analyst handling 340B Drug Pricing Program issues for the HRSA Pharmacy Services Support Center. Ms. Coffey received her JD degree from American University’s Washington College of Law and her LLM degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
PRESENTER(S):
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Justine Coffey, JD, LLM, Director, Section of Home, Ambulatory, and Chronic Care Practitioners, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Justine Coffey currently works as the director of federal regulatory affairs for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. In this position, she advocates ASHP’s positions before federal agencies whose regulatory and rulemaking authority impacts on health-system pharmacy. Previously, Ms. Coffey worked as a consultant, providing health policy consulting services to individual clients and advising state government agencies on federal and state laws, regulations, and policies impacting on Medicaid and other state programs. From 2002 to 2005, she worked for the American Pharmacists Association, first as a policy and regulatory writer, and then as a senior policy analyst handling 340B Drug Pricing Program issues for the HRSA Pharmacy Services Support Center. Ms. Coffey received her JD degree from American University’s Washington College of Law and her LLM degree from the Georgetown University Law Center.
Joseph Hill, MA, Director, Federal Legislative Affairs, American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Joseph Hill currently serves as director of federal legislative affairs for the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. He advocates ASHP’s positions on critical issues before members of Congress and their staff. Prior to that he was government affairs manager for the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists where he represented ASCP before state and federal legislators. Mr. Hill holds a Master of Arts degree in political science from the University of Tennessee and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Geralyn is the current State Government Affairs Director at the ASHP and has worked in health policy for the past five years. Prior to coming to ASHP, she was the Senior Health Policy Analyst for State Issues with the American Academy of Actuaries. The public policy and professionalism arm of the U.S. actuarial profession, her work concentrated on issue areas such as Medicaid, Medicare Part D, long-term care, and disease management programs from an actuarially-sound perspective. Prior to the Academy, she worked with the American Psychiatric Association as the Administrator for Commercially-Supported Symposia and as a Scientific Program Coordinator.
Geralyn earned her Masters in Public Policy, with a concentration in Public Administration, from the American University in Washington, D.C. She earned her undergraduate degree in Business Administration and Management from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Explain how to apply the regulatory and legislative information to a range of practice topics.
Identify current regulatory and legislative issues impacting health-system pharmacists in a variety of practice settings.