Digital Pharmacies and Other Pharmacy Start-Ups: Legal Challenges and Pitfalls

Mr. Dresser, Esq. is a Partner in Frier Levitt’s Life Sciences Department and heads the firm’s Pharmacy Practice Group. His practice is dedicated to representing a broad cross-section of pharmacies and pharmacy providers, including community retail pharmacies, chain pharmacies, compounding pharmacies, specialty pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, home infusion providers, and dispensing physician practices. Jesse represents pharmacy providers nationally on issues with payors and Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs), including PBM audit appeals, network terminations, network access and credentialing applications, and reimbursement issues. In addition to his work with pharmacy clients, Mr. Dresser also represents a variety of other entities across the healthcare and life sciences spectrum, including other healthcare providers, pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers, pharmaceutical wholesalers and distributors, and healthcare technology companies. Through this work, he has focused on the intersection between the law and economic considerations, including drug pricing, marketing techniques, and benefits management. Mr. Dresser frequently lectures across the country at national and regional pharmacy and healthcare conferences and organizations, including the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP), the American College of Apothecaries (ACA), the American College of Veterinary Pharmacists (ACVP), the National Association of Specialty Pharmacy (NASP), the Community Oncology Alliance (COA) the Community Oncology Pharmacy Association (COPA), the National Home Infusion Association (NHIA), and the Immunoglobulin National Society (IgNS). He also regularly hosts pharmacy industry webinars for a variety of industry organizations and affiliated companies.

Mr. Morrone is a partner in the healthcare department with a focus on transactional and regulatory law, working in the New York City office. He joined Frier Levitt in 2008 following over twenty years as a senior healthcare executive, holding positions with academic medical centers, and private and publicly-traded physician practice management companies, and healthcare consulting groups. Mr. Morrone received his Juris Doctorate from Seton Hall Law School and graduated cum laude. He also holds an MBA from Baruch College/Mount Sinai Medical School in Hospital and Healthcare Administration.