Boston Healthcare Welcomes Gina Ford, RPh, MBA as Executive Director
Ms. Ford joins the reimbursement practice with 15 years of health care experience. Most recently she was Senior Director of Reimbursement for a specialty pharmaceutical company where she led field teams to create favorable payer policies and internal hotline teams to best practice claims management. In addition, her leadership resulted in the commercial launch of two specialty products through the development and implementation of payer strategy across multiple payer segments.
Prior to entering the specialty pharmaceutical industry, Ms. Ford was a clinical pharmacist and served as the Executive Director for the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists, responsible for the implementation of the pharmaceutical compounding section of the FDA Modernization Act of 1997 in collaboration with Congress and FDA.
In 2000, Ms. Ford received Drug Topics Magazine's "Pharmacist of the Year" award recognizing her contributions to women's health care and design of a novel distribution network in menopause management.