Anne Jarrett is a pharmaceutical reimbursement specialist and consultant/owner of ATJ Consulting, LLC, formed in 2007 in High Point, N.C.. The company's website is www.atjconsultants@drugreimbursement.org.
Ms. Jarrett has collaborated on drug reimbursement projects with many companies, including Premier, Novation, MedLearn (Panacea), Creative Learning Designs, Gerson Lehrman Group Councils and the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists(ASHP), among others.
She has been an invited speaker for the American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, the North Carolina Pharmacists Association and, most recently the Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association. She is currently writing a book about reimbursement for pharmaceuticals for the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists (ASHP).
Anne has 27 years of experience as a hospital pharmacist and was an Assistant Director of Pharmacy at Wake Forest University Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, N.C. During her tenure there, she recovered millions of dollars of unclaimed reimbursement for the administration of drug clotting factors to inpatients with Medicare. In addition, she was responsible for completing the annual $60 million drug budget, purchasing pharmaceuticals, managing the supply chain, contracting with pharmaceutical manufacturers, and meeting with drug company representatives.
She managed as many as 100 employees, which involved scheduling, hiring and firing, conflict resolution, performing employee evaluations, strategic planning as well as opening two new satellite pharmacies. Other experience included proposing, budgeting and implementing the use of a pharmacy robot to fill medications and placing medication dispensing cabinets in patient care areas.
She participated in rounding on cardiology patients with other members of the healthcare team, including physicians, medical students, nurses, social workers and pharmacy students, for which she was a preceptor. Early on, she led the addition of pharmacists rounding on the hematology/oncology healthcare team. Ms. Jarrett was also involved with continuity of care by performing discharge counseling with patients and providing drug regimen charts for their use as well as the retail pharmacy the patients frequented. Lastly, she planned and implemented a pharmacy to provide medication for patients who were unable to afford them. The patient populations most commonly served by the pharmacy were those with cardiology related diagnoses and recipients of solid organ transplants.
She earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the school of pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.