Consultant
BluePeak Advisors
Reisterstown, MD
Babette S. Edgar, Pharm.D., MBA, FAMCP is a Founder, BluePeak Advisors, a division of Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc.. Babette has been in the managed care industry for over 30 years and advises health plans, pharmacy benefit management companies and pharmaceutical companies on Medicare and managed care strategies, operational and compliance issues. She is Past President of AMCP, and has been actively involved in AMCP for over 25 years.
Prior to starting her own firm, Babette worked at CatalystRx, where she was President, Government Services and ran the Medicare business for the fourth largest PBM. Babette was the Director of the Division of Finance and Operations for the Medicare Drug Benefit Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), where she directed building and implementing the formulary and benefit design review processes for the Part D drug benefit. She oversaw the CMS Part D team that developed the agency’s marketing guidelines and marketing models, and conducted oversight of the marketing review process. Babette also directed CMS operations for reviewing and monitoring the licensure and solvency of Part D plan sponsors, assisted in developing transition guidance for Part D plans with patients migrating from Medicaid or other benefits; and provided input into the Part D regulations and other subregulatory guidance from a managed care pharmacy perspective.
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