Scott Allocco

Biography

Scott Allocco is Director, Co-Founder, and Former President of BioMarker Strategies. He is President, SJA Healthcare Strategies. As a member of the Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC), and Personalized Medicine Committee, he is actively engaged in efforts to reform FDA and CMS regulatory and reimbursement policies for next generation biomarker tests. He is the co-chair of the BIO Personalized Medicine committee and the former co-chair of the Personalized Medicine Coalition's Task Force on CMS Coverage, Coverage and Reimbursement Reform. Prior to co-founding BioMarker Strategies, he had 15 years of healthcare and pharmaceutical industry experience, including drug coverage and reimbursement issues for commercial and public sector health insurance programs. Most recently, Mr. Allocco was vice president of state government relations for Coventry Health Care, one of the nation's largest health insurance companies. He was also vice president for business development at First Health Services, a Coventry subsidiary which he helped build into the nation's largest pharmacy benefits administrator of Medicaid drug-benefit programs.

Research Interest

Prior to joining First Health Services, Allocco was a managing director in the health-care practice group at Hill and Knowlton's Washington, D.C. office. He also served for four years as the director of the Office of Government Affairs for the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services under Governor Christine Todd Whitman. He graduated cum laude with a B.A. in public policy from Hamilton College.