- Major job responsibility (public info):
- Pharmacy benefit management
- Years of Experience (public info):
- 20+
- Biography:
- Carl T. Bertram PharmD, Principal at Integrity Healthcare, LLC. A healthcare consulting company for employers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, healthcare providers and companies focused on clinical product development (e.g. disease management, medication adherence, specialty pharmacy and medication therapy management). His past retail and managed care clinical product development, operations and staff leadership experience includes:
· Formulary Development and Administration
· Therapeutic Interventions
· Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Rebate Contracting
· Pharmacy and Therapeutics
· Clinical Prior Authorization, Prior Authorization Call Center Operations and Software Requirement Development
· Medication Adherence, Medication Therapy Management
· Disease Management, Wellness, Health Outcomes Research
· Trend Report
· Merged Medical and Pharmacy Claims
· Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Pull-Through, Concurrent Drug Utilization Review, Retrospective Drug Use Evaluation and Software Requirement Development
· Specialty Pharmacy
· Pharmacist Continuing Education
· Walgreens In-Store Patient Care Center Operations in the northeast
· Walgreens/WHI National Advisory Board
Before becoming Manager, then Director of Clinical Services, and then Vice President of Clinical Pharmacy and Strategy – Medical Health Solutions, Dr. Bertram practiced in the community pharmacy setting as a technician, student, intern and pharmacist for Walgreens for 10 years focusing his professional responsibilities on advocating, demonstrating and documenting the importance of the provision of pharmaceutical care. This was facilitated through assisting in revising dispensing workflow processes in the pharmacy and improving documentation of clinical prescription information.
Dr. Bertram has also coordinated, presented and published pharmacy continuing education programs, and over 20 research abstracts for organizations such as AMCP, Pinsonault, ACCP, WF Professionals and ISPOR on topics such as Medicare, MTM, Walgreens Clinical Department, prior Authorization programs, retail 90 programs, hypertension, antibiotic resistance, appropriate use of proton pump inhibitors, drug interactions, HIV/AIDS, pharmacoeconomics, and oncology.
Dr. Bertram received a B.S. in Pharmacy in 1990 from the University of South Carolina and subsequently completed a post-baccalaureate PharmD. degree in 1992 with a focus in Internal Medicine.
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