JC Scott, the chief advocacy officer for AdvaMed, will take over as president and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Care Management Association, which lobbies for pharmacy benefit managers, on Oct. 15. He is being succeeded by Greg Crist, currently AdvaMed's executive vice president for public affairs and a congressional veteran.
The changing of the guards comes at a critical time when the top device industry group is trying to get the medical device excise tax repealed in the Senate by year's end