Jodi Fredericks

Her Story

Dr. Fredericks is the Director of Pharmacy Trade Relations and Business Development at Memorial Healthcare System in Hollywood, Florida.  Dr. Fredericks has been with Memorial Healthcare System for over fifteen years, where she has also served as the Pharmacy Safety & Medication Officer, Director of Pharmacy Contracting, and Operations Coordinator of Pharmacy.  In her previous role, Dr. Fredericks was the Director of Pharmacy for Community Care Plan in Sunrise, Florida.   Dr. Fredericks received her Doctor of Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree from Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy, Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1999 and completed a Residency in Ambulatory Care Pharmacotherapy at the Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Richmond, Virginia in 2000. She also completed her MBA Degree, with a concentration in Health Services Administration, at Nova Southeastern University Huizenga School of Business, Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 2005.

Dr. Fredericks currently resides in Davie, Florida with her husband and eight year old son.

Facility

Since its inception in 1953, Memorial Healthcare System has been a leader in providing high-quality healthcare services to South Florida residents. Today, it is one of the largest public healthcare systems in the nation and highly regarded for its exceptional patient- and family-centered care.

Memorial Specialty Pharmacy Services was established in 2015 to service patients receiving specialty medications to improve access and clinical outcomes. Memorial Specialty Pharmacy Services currently cares for over 2,500 patients throughout the state of Florida. Memorial Specialty Pharmacy Services recently moved to a state of the art facility located in Miramar, Florida and proactively works with patients who have selected chronic disease states to provide therapy management support services with a goal of obtaining optimal therapeutic outcomes, while avoiding adverse drugs events and unnecessary costs.

Services also include:

• Dispensing of specialty pharmaceuticals and time-sensitive delivery
• Clinical management program that includes assessments and interventions
• Collaboration and communication with providers and physician practices
• Patient education, adherence monitoring, and monitoring for safety and efficacy
• Benefits investigation
• Prior authorization assistance
• Enrollment in patient assistance programs and financial assistance

Memorial Specialty Pharmacy Services is a URAC-accredited and ACHC-accredited specialty pharmacy.

Memorial Regional Hospital is the flagship facility of the healthcare system and is one of the largest hospitals in Florida. Memorial Regional Hospital offers extensive and diverse health care services that include Memorial Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Memorial Cancer Institute treating more inpatients than any other in Broward County, and Memorial Neuroscience Institute. Memorial Regional Hospital and Memorial Regional Hospital South are both located in Hollywood, Florida, and offer our community a variety of medical and surgical services. Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital at Memorial provides a comprehensive array of pediatric services and is the leading children's hospital in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Memorial Hospital West, Memorial Hospital Miramar and Memorial Hospital Pembroke serve the communities of western Broward County and others in South Florida. Memorial Home Health Services, Memorial Manor nursing home and a variety of ancillary healthcare facilities round out the system's wide-ranging health services.

Recent Significant Projects

In my current role as Director of Pharmacy Trade Relations and Business Development, I work with manufacturers to obtain access to drugs, with payers to obtain necessary contracts, and assist with all ambulatory pharmacy contracts for the Memorial Healthcare System, including specialty pharmacy, home infusion pharmacy, and retail pharmacy services. I also work closely with our healthcare system’s employee plan and pharmacy benefits.  Recently, I worked on a project with my healthcare system's human resources department, health network, and pharmacy benefit manager to redesign our pharmacy benefits for our self-insured health plan to maximize utilization of our specialty pharmacy and in-house retail pharmacy locations.  This project helped to save the health plan over $4 million in drug savings through improved drug pricing and maximization of manufacturer coupon programs, as well as helping to decrease our members’ copays on medications.

Initial Involvement in ASHP

I am currently an active member of ASHP and serve on the ASHP Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners Advisory Group (SAG) on Business Development.

Why did you become involved in ASHP? 

I have been a part of a healthcare system for the past 15 years and ASHP has always been an important advocate and resource for health system pharmacists.  With ASHP’s recent addition of the Section of Specialty Pharmacy Practitioners, healthcare systems with Specialty pharmacies have a resource to join, network, and share practice-specific interests, issues, challenges, and ideas.

Advice for Someone New to Specialty Area

The specialty pharmacy arena is a challenging area full of opportunities for healthcare systems to best service our patients. We need to continue to strive to work together towards better access to limited distribution drugs and payer access so we can make sure our healthcare system patients are best served and receive the continuity of care they want and deserve.

How would you explain the value of ASHP to a friend or colleague?

ASHP provides opportunities for networking with colleagues and helps support the profession of pharmacy.  It has practice resources, clinical and leadership meetings and conferences, as well as continuing education opportunities and educational resources.

What is the value of ASHP for the profession?

ASHP has always been a strong advocate for pharmacists and in helping to advance healthcare. The organization addresses issues that are relevant and pertinent to the time, advocating on national and state levels.  They are at the forefront of issues and challenges facing the changing and evolving profession of pharmacy.