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Sybil M. Richard is the chief of the Bureau of Medicaid Pharmacy Services of the state of Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration. Her responsibilities include the planning, directing, organizing, and coordinating of policy and procedures related to the Medicaid prescribed drug program; research and analysis of proposed state and federal legislation; Medicaid prescribed drug budget; and cost-containment initiatives.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Richard was the director of Policy and Programs for the National Association of Chain Drug Stores, where she was responsible for policy and regulatory issues relating to federal and state health care programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
In 2000, Ms. Richard was named the 13th David A. Winston Health Policy Fellow. During her fellowship, she worked at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in the Centers for Medicaid and State Operations, where she contributed to the development of policies and implementation of the Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Program.
Ms. Richard was recently appointed to the State Pharmaceutical Assistance Transition Commission by Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson. The commission is responsible for developing legislative and administrative proposals to ease the transition of low-income Medicare beneficiaries from state-sponsored programs to the new Medicare drug benefit in 2006.
She is a member of the American Pharmacists Association and the American Bar Association. She is registered with the Louisiana Board of Pharmacy and was admitted to the Maryland Bar. Ms. Richard graduated with a B.S. degree in pharmacy from Xavier University of Louisiana, and received her master's in health administration and juris doctorate from Indiana University.
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