{"id":3925,"date":"2020-02-14T20:52:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T20:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.hamptonu.edu\/pharmacy\/?page_id=3925"},"modified":"2022-06-15T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T20:09:21","slug":"mr-ronald-lyon-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/home.hamptonu.edu\/pharmacy\/mr-ronald-lyon-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Ronald Lyon Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs (interim), Pharmacy Practice<\/em><\/p>

Location:<\/strong> School of Pharmacy Annex – 103A<\/p>

Phone:<\/strong> 757-727-5071<\/p>

E-mail:<\/strong> ronald.lyon@hamptonu.edu<\/a><\/p>

Expertise:<\/strong> Managed Care, Pharmacoeconomics, Medication Information, Analytics<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Executive-level experience within hospitals, health plans, pharmacy benefit management (PBM), disease & behavioral health management companies.<\/p>

Key accomplishments include:<\/strong><\/p>

  • Developing a care gap identification and notification system that lowers total cost trends by an average of 5% and preventable admissions by 10% for employers and health plans
    1. High impact combined with low cost due to automation results in ROI exceeding 20:1<\/li><\/ol><\/li>
    2. Formulary management (P&T Committee, physician education, coverage management) that resulted in cost trends significantly lower than national averages:
      1. Mease Healthcare had no increase for over 3 years versus >20% annual trends nationally<\/li>
      2. CIGNA Healthplan of Florida had no increase for over 4 years versus >15% annual trends nationally<\/li>
      3. PCN experienced trends 1\/2 of the national average for 9 years<\/li>
      4. Trigon experienced trends 1\/2 of the national average for 3 years<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ul>

        Leading major IT projects, including:<\/strong><\/p>

          • Selection and transition from outsourced claims processing to ComCoTec (now Catamaran)<\/li>
          • Selection and implementation of pharmacy computer systems for CIGNA’s staff-model clinics<\/li>
          • Developed the MedIntelligence suite of decision support systems (DSS) for PCN<\/li>
          • Selection and contracting for pharmacy DSS for Towers Perrin<\/li>
          • Managing customer service, account management and clinical teams of up to 75 people with profit & loss responsibility (P&L) for budgets exceeding $300 million<\/li>
          • Negotiating rebate (hospital, managed care), claims processing, PBM and decision support service contracts<\/li>
          • Directly supporting sales teams, including achievement of personal sales goals while at Towers Perrin
            1. Managed multiple consulting projects each year while National Pharmacy Practice Leader at Towers Perrin<\/li>
            2. The practice averaged 30% annual revenue growth while National Pharmacy Practice Leader (Towers Perrin)<\/li>
            3. Over 90% of clients at Trigon used our pharmacy services compared to an average of ~50% for other health plans<\/li><\/ol><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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