Leslie S. Fish, Pharm.D., appointed to Legislative Committee of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
Worcester, Mass., September 2, 2008― Fallon Community Health Plan is pleased to announce that Leslie S. Fish, Pharm. D., Senior Director of Pharmacy Services, has been appointed to the Legislative Committee of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP).
As a member of the Legislative Committee, Dr. Fish will monitor the legislative activities in Massachusetts and report on her findings to the committee, and will also investigate how federal policies and activities will affect health care. She will also focus on the pharmacy lobbying efforts on Capital Hill. This is a nominated position of which Dr. Fish will hold for a period of two years.
Dr. Fish has been a strong advocate for managing the safety and cost of prescription drugs in her role at FCHP, and has more than 25 years of experience in the health care field as a practicing pharmacist, with particular expertise in oncology and cardiology, and as a consultant, educator, researcher and writer.
She received her doctorate of pharmacy from Northeastern University, Graduate School of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, and a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy.
Dr. Fish resides in Worcester with her husband and three sons.
Lauren M. Petit
lauren.petit@fchp.org
About FCHP
Founded in 1977, Fallon Community Health Plan provides health care services designed to meet the unique and changing needs of all we serve. FCHP is the only health plan in Massachusetts that is both an insurer and provider of care. Our product portfolio includes a variety of group and individual health plan options (HMO, POS, PPO, Medicaid and Medicare Advantage plans) featuring flexible and innovative benefit designs. We administer fully-insured and self-insured funding arrangements with customized services for employers. Our uniquely developed provider networks offer high-quality, cost-effective, coordinated care and give our members access to doctors and hospitals throughout Massachusetts. We also offer a broad spectrum of services and programs to ensure our members, at every stage of life, remain as healthy and productive as possible. FCHP is a provider of care through its Summit ElderCare® program, an advanced and completely integrated program that offers seniors and their caregivers an alternative to nursing home placement. Our continued commitment to deliver high-quality health care and exceptional customer service has earned FCHP consistent ratings as one of the nation’s top health plans, and in 2007, placed our Medicare and Medicaid health plans as the best in the nation. FCHP is the only health plan in Massachusetts to have been awarded “Excellent” Accreditation by the National Committee for Quality Assurance for our HMO, Medicare Advantage and Medicaid products.