Pharmacy Audit Services

Conducting comprehensive audits to account for all claims and financials.

Excelsior Solutions offers a full suite of pharmacy benefit consulting services to its clients including employers, health plans, health systems, and unions. Excelsior Solutions’ pharmacy consultants assists clients in determining the best PBM partner to meet their members’ needs through the RFP process, negotiating contracts, and ensuring that our clients’ PBM programs remain value-add through market checks and program analyses. In turn, our Pharmacy Audit Services team holds our clients’ PBM partners accountable to negotiated contract terms, guaranteed performance, and accuracy of plan design administration through a series of validation checks and comprehensive audit processes.

Excelsior Solutions’ Pharmacy Audit Services team is led by Vice President Marci Guillemette, an industry veteran of nearly 20 years who has served as both Senior Director for a top three PBM client audit support team as well as has led the pharmacy audit practice at a consulting firm. Marci’s experience on both sides of an audit provides a unique perspective that creates efficiencies in the audit process and lends itself to successful negotiation of audit outcomes. Marci and her team have over 35 years combined experience in assessing PBM adherence to contract terms and plan design requirements with our auditors having served in roles that include PBM client audit, prior authorizations, issue resolution, and account management.

To read about some of the team’s recent audit successes or our Audit FAQ, click on the links below.

LEADERSHIP

MARCI GUILLEMETTE, MBA, CPHT, MHFA
Vice President,
Audit Services

Marci Guillemette, Vice President of Pharmacy Audit Services, has 20 years of experience as an analyst and leader. Previous positions include Senior Director of Commercial Audit at OptumRx and Director, Audit Services at Pharmaceutical Strategies Group. Marci’s areas of expertise include pharmaceutical auditing, change management, and process improvement. Marci earned her bachelor’s degree in business and French from Lake Forest College, her MBA in Finance and Leadership and Change Management from DePaul University and is a Certified Pharmacy Technician.

OUR APPROACH

  • Comprehensive audit kickoff to ensure the process, data requirements, key milestone dates, and stakeholders are well defined.
  • Data and documentation gathering both from the PBM and client (e.g., plan summary description).
  • Claim analysis to determine any unexpected instances in each audit scope area. Collaboration with the PBM to mitigate false positives and determine root cause of discrepancies that become confirmed errors.
  • Draft and finalize reports that summarize audit results and any next steps.
  • Presentation of results to the client and negotiation of audit settlement and closure.

WHO WE SERVE

Excelsior Solutions’ Pharmacy Audit Services team serves employers, health plans, health systems, and unions by creating custom solutions for differing client needs. The desire to perform an audit may arise from due diligence requirements, at the recommendation of your consultant, or due to something more troubling, such as member noise or an unexpected and inexplainable increase in drug spend. Excelsior Solutions stands ready with both standard audit offerings and custom solutions to meet your plan’s unique needs.

SERVICES

  • Pricing Audits
  • Rebate Audits
  • Benefit Audits
  • Operational and Delegation Audits
  • Pre- and Post-Implementation Audits

CONTACT US

To meet the team and discuss your unique audit needs, reach out to us at
ExcelsiorPharmacyAudit@Lockton.com.

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