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Sean Hurley Joins Ameritox as Vice President for Insurance and Managed Care Contracting

Posted on: Friday, 5 June 2009, 08:20 CDT

BALTIMORE, June 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameritox, the U.S. leader in pain prescription monitoring, has announced the appointment of Sean Hurley as Vice President of Insurance and Managed Care Contracting. Hurley will oversee the company's contracting activities and support within the managed care market.

"We are thrilled to have Sean on board," said Ancelmo E. Lopes, CEO of Ameritox. "His appointment underscores our ongoing commitment to provide our payors with both data and tools to improve quality of care for their members with chronic pain."

Hurley's career spans more than two decades. From his service as a Captain in the U.S. Army, he began in healthcare at Abbott Laboratories as a hospital representative. There, he honed his skills for working with P&T Committees and quickly moved into managed care sales. For the next 18 years, he continued in progressively senior positions at leading organizations in the pharmaceutical, biotech and laboratory industries including Quest Diagnostics and Roche Laboratories.

During his tenure with Novo Nordisk (2001-2008), Hurley's success in sales growth and work with payors prompted three promotions in less than seven years. As Novo Nordisk's Associate VP of Managed Markets, Sean was instrumental in building a team that was ranked as one of the Top 3 organizations for the past five years, as reported by the Health Industry Research Center (HIRC).

Sean Hurley earned a bachelor's degree from St. Lawrence University and he is currently a Member of the Executive Planning Committee for the American Diabetes Association for Upstate New York. He will be based at Ameritox headquarters in Baltimore, MD.

About Ameritox

Ameritox is the nation's leader in pain prescription monitoring, processing thousands of specimens every day. Only Ameritox offers the Rx Guardian(SM) Report, the most thorough and personalized lab report available and the only report that uses a patented methodology to help physicians assess whether patients are taking their pain medication consistent with the dosage prescribed by their physicians. By comparing normalized values to expected prescription-specific ranges, Rx Guardian assists pain practitioners in protecting their patients by providing information to help them assess compliance based on prescription regimens. Rx Guardian also provides peace of mind to physicians and protection to their practices by providing data to help ensure that patients are taking pain medications as prescribed. Ameritox headquarters are located in Baltimore, MD, and its laboratory facilities are in Midland, TX. For additional information, please contact us by phone at 866-926-9264, by e-mail at information.request@ameritox.com, or visit http://www.ameritox.com.

AMERITOX, the AMERITOX logo, RX GUARDIAN and PROTECT YOUR PATIENTS, PROTECT YOUR PRACTICE are trademarks of Ameritox.

Contact: Jennifer Paganelli Edelman 212-642-7774 jennifer.paganelli@edelman.com

SOURCE Ameritox


Source: PR Newswire

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