CMS Stacking Rule
Jake Keenan, Senior Director at Federal Compliance Solutions
Rujul Desai, Partner at Covington & Burling LLP
Jake Keenan is a Senior Director at Federal Compliance Solutions with over twenty years of experience in the Life Sciences industry focused on compliance with government program regulations and excellence in contract operations. Jake has consulted with all types of pharmaceutical manufacturers to help them achieve best practices in Medicaid, Dept of Veteran Affairs, and Medicare price calculation and reporting requirements. This includes building methodologies and initiating manufacturers into the government programs upon launch, as well as performing government price calculation assessments to identify gaps to improve compliance.
Rujul Desai advises clients on drug pricing, market access, reimbursement, strategic contracting, and regulatory solutions for drugs, biologicals, devices, and diagnostics. He brings deep experience with biopharma, specialty pharmacy, and pharmacy benefit management (PBM) companies.
Rujul has held a number of leadership roles in the biopharma, PBM, and specialty pharmacy industry, including with CVS Caremark, UCB, and most recently as Vice President at Avalere Health. He has led engagements across a wide range of U.S. and global market access and reimbursement issues, including optimizing new product launches, pricing, PBM and payer formulary access, value-based contracting, distribution network design, patient access and hub services, affordability programs, e-prescribing, digital health, and the use of health economic data and modeling.
