Steven Avey is a distinguished expert in managed care and namesake of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) Foundation’s prestigious lifetime achievement award, the Steven G. Avey Award. AMCP renamed their award in recognition of his achievements in quality measurement programs and improving drug assessment processes in the U.S. As Vice President of Specialty Programs at MedImpact, Steven is responsible for setting the overall business strategy in the specialty arena.
For the past 8 years, Steve has devoted his full attention to the appropriate management of specialty medications. His passion is working with clinicians and health outcomes researchers to better understand the value each specialty medication brings to a patient population and given their high cost, determine when and how they should be utilized. Due to the relatively small number of patients that must take a specialty medication, it leaves many opportunities for contracted pharmacies to directly influence the health status of these patients and better manage their care.
Steve began his career in retail practice, but following graduate school, managed care pharmacy became his focus. He initially started with Prospective Health (now Relay Health), where he helped establish and run its data services division. In 2000, after serving as treasurer and president of AMCP, he was hired as the executive director of the Foundation for Managed Care Pharmacy. This foundation presented education programs across the country training physicians and pharmacists how to better assess the value of new therapies. In 2005, Steve left AMCP to become Vice President of Managed Care at Partners Rx Management. Six years later he joined RegenceRx where we worked to assess the company’s services, networks and rebates to determine how RegenceRx could better service its health plan.
In January 2013, Avey was named Vice President, Specialty Pharmacy Programs for MedImpact in San Diego, California. In this role, he is setting the overall clinical strategy in the specialty arena. His current title is Vice President Enterprise Specialty Clinical Solutions and he continues to work with clients ensuring the appropriate use of specialty therapies with high level clinical support programs through Medimpact Direct.
Steve holds a Bachelor of Science degree in pharmacy and a Master of Science degree in pharmacy administration from the University of Utah. He was named the College of Pharmacy’s outstanding alumnus in 2003.
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