Mehdi
Bezih.
Clinical pharmacist and former controls engineer. I work on prior-authorization automation, clinical protocol design, and compliance-driven pharmacy operations.
A small, stubborn idea
Less a portfolio, more a working record.
Each project here began with a problem I hit in practice — on a factory floor, in a hospital, or inside a PBM workflow — and a question: what’s breaking, what does the evidence say, and what would a better implementation actually look like.
This site is where I document what I build and why.
Clinical pharmacy,
at a systems level.
Before pharmacy, I spent three years as an electrical and controls systems engineer in automotive manufacturing — automation, vision inspection, and PLC work on high-throughput assembly lines. I pivoted into clinical pharmacy, earned my PharmD from the University of Toledo, and carried the same habit with me: measure the process end-to-end, rebuild it around the bottleneck.
I currently adjudicate GLP-1 prior authorizations at Prime Therapeutics, supporting Medi-Cal members across a high-volume caseload. Alongside that work, I operate PharmRx LLC, where I design and build software for the managed-care and independent-pharmacy workflows I have worked within directly.
Two tools are currently in production: glpv2, a prior-authorization workflow tool that reduces case processing time by approximately 40 percent, and RxGuard, a HIPAA- and DEA-compliant pharmacy management platform with AI-assisted pill counting and Schedule II perpetual inventory. I also consult with independent pharmacies on credentialing, operations, and clinical workflow design.
Two questions guide the work:
Does this actually help patients?
And can it be made measurably better?
ASHP-certified in AI in Pharmacy and Pharmacy Informatics. Registered Pharmacist, State of Michigan. Controlled Substance License, State of Michigan.
Before pharmacy,
the line.
Three years as a controls engineer in automotive manufacturing — where I learned that good systems are built one bottleneck at a time.
Electrical / Controls Systems Engineer · 2018–2021
IWT · Farmington Hills, MI
Designed and optimized industrial automation and vision inspection systems for high-throughput automotive assembly. Worked in PLC logic, scripting, and industrial networking alongside cross-functional manufacturing engineering teams.
- Industrial automation
- Logic optimization
- Vision inspection systems
- PLC & scripting
- Industrial networking
- Validation & failure analysis
Quantified outcome
Ford F-150 inspection cycle time
Before
~14s
After
~3.7s
Δ
−73%
Delivered through logic optimization and a ground-up redesign of the inspection sequence. The instinct for measuring a process end-to-end and rebuilding it around the bottleneck is the same instinct driving the pharmacy work now.
From the line
to the bedside.
Advanced pharmacy practice on an interdisciplinary clinical team — the first time I applied the engineer’s habit of measurement to patient care.
Advanced APPE · 2024
Corewell Health (Trenton)
Mentors: Dr. Macey Williams, Kevin Kar, Haley Schevenar
Embedded as part of the clinical pharmacy team on daily interdisciplinary rounds — delivering evidence-based therapeutic recommendations and managing complex pharmacotherapy across the service.
- Renal dose adjustments
- IV-to-PO transitions
- Anticoagulation protocols
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Medication reconciliation
- Transitions-of-care planning
Highlight · June 2024
Inhaler standardization & reassignment initiative
Contributed to Corewell's system-wide inhaler standardization program — building safe disinfection protocols, reallocation workflows, and operational changes for inpatient inhaler reuse. Educated staff on handling and documentation to align with updated infection-control standards.
Outcome: reduced pharmacy waste, improved cost efficiency, and a safer, more defensible reuse pipeline on the inpatient side.
Four areas of focus.
The domains where most of my current work lives.
Managed Care & Prior Auth
Adjudicating PBM prior authorizations and building the tooling around them — clinical criteria logic, aid-code databases, ICD-10 validation, automated fax templates.
Pharmacy Informatics
ICD-10 validation, reject-code analysis, PA criteria logic, clinical decision support. Turning messy clinical guidance into structured, auditable decisions.
Compliance-Grade Pharmacy Ops
HIPAA and DEA 21 CFR 1304 compliance by design. Schedule II perpetual inventory, immutable audit trails, role-based access, state-specific requirements.
Independent Pharmacy Consulting
Credentialing, network contracting, DUR, workflow optimization. Helping independent retail and compounding pharmacies run like it’s 2026 instead of 1996.
Things I've built,
broken, and rebuilt.
Collaborate
on something
real.
I work with clinical, operational, and informatics teams on protocol design, PBM and prior-authorization tooling, pharmacy compliance, credentialing, and clinical workflow. Open to engagements where the problem is well-defined and the objective is measurable improvement in patient care.