Michael J. Tocco

Michael is the Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Integrated Pharmacy Solutions, Inc. Over the past 35 years, Michael’s experience in the health care industry has included positions such as: owner of a community pharmacy chain, executive level positions in two major pharmacy chains, consulting and program development for managed care organizations as well as state DUR boards, and consulting to pharmaceutical manufactures on disease management, operational, clinical, regulatory, and marketing issues. While at IPS, Michael has helped clients by developing: disease management programs that use patient registries, disease treatment algorithms, provider and patient education, as well as providing contract management and pharmacy data management services.

Michael uses his experience to provide innovative and practical solutions to today’s most difficult pharmaceutical care delivery problems encouraging appropriate and rational use of pharmaceuticals to reduce health system costs. Specific experience includes:

Assessing, evaluating, redesigning and implementing pharmaceutical care management and distribution programs.

Designing and implementing pharmacy related health system issue management strategies for managed care and public health organizations.

Disease management initiatives and patient registries in the areas of depression, peptic ulcer disease, weight management, Hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.

Testifying and speaking at various state drug utilization review boards, pharmacy and therapeutic committees, and many national managed health care conferences speaking on contemporary pharmacy and health care issues.

Through his experiences Michael has a tight grasp on the integration of pharmacy between practice settings enabling him to design seamless pharmaceutical care.

Michael graduated from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Sciences with a Bachelor of Science degree, and has completed a Master’s in Education and Management Studies at Cambridge College. Michael has also completed course work toward an MBA at Suffolk University. He is a member of national and state pharmacy associations as well as political organizations. Michael has served on the leadership of the Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy since 1997. Michael has published a number of articles related to pharmaceutical care and has spoken at a number of national health care conferences (NMHCC, AMCP, ASCP, ASHP). Michael also has served on the editorial boards for Nursing Home Economics and Disease State Management Magazines. He served on the Board for 4 years and is a Past President of the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy, committee member AMCP’s Pharmacy Pricing Advisory Task Force, and Chair of the Academy of Managed Care’s National Task Force on Quality, and Chaired the Task Force on Community Pharmacy Outreach.