National Pharmaceutical Council
Executive Summary
Former Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America VP-Research & Information Services Gary Persinger joining NPC as VP to work on the council's value-of-pharmaceuticals research, particularly in the Medicaid and Medicare areas. NPC has initial results from its three-year project with Virginia Medicaid on the relationship between use of asthma medications and expenditures for emergency treatments. Persinger was part of the PhRMA economics group for 16 years