Attorney Talk: Casual Conversations About The Law.

In this week’s episode of Attorney Talk, Ken Thayer interviews Jesse Dresser, who is a lawyer at Frier Levitt and practices in the area of healthcare law. Jesse deals with co-payment collection practices, mail order issues, and insurance billing practices concerning the running of pharmacies. Jesse routinely lectures to pharmacies and provides guidance about proper submissions of claims to insurance companies and methods of growing a pharmacy business while avoiding scrutiny from both payers and regulators. During the show, Ken and Jesse discuss general healthcare law, proactive versus reactive, PBMs, compounding and specialty pharmacies, Obama Care, and the future state of pharmacy law.   Main Questions Asked: What is healthcare law, and how do attorneys fit in the spectrum of pharmacy businesses? Is yours more of a proactive position or after-the-fact where there are problems? What is a PBM? Are the PBMs gatekeepers for the insurance industry when it comes to pharmaceuticals? Where does your