Virtual Patient Access Coordinator
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Locations: San Diego, CA
Time Type: Full time
Posted on: Posted 2 Days Ago
Job Requisition ID: JR32549
Inizio Engage has a long-standing partnership with a pharmaceutical company to provide services to patients allowing access to care.
The Virtual Case Manager provides services to patients allowing access to care for prescribed medications. You will talk with patients, physicians, and pharmacies related to providing access to care on behalf of our clients. You will be part of a patient access team to manage the patient experience from start to finish by providing services that may include benefits investigation, program information, eligibility, reimbursement support, and general resources. You will communicate with third parties to obtain benefits verification, enroll in copay support, and transfer patients to patient assistance programs. You are someone with extreme customer empathy, experience in patient care/healthcare case management and engagement, and someone with excellent software navigation skills.
What’s in it for you?
- Competitive compensation
- Excellent Benefits – accrued time off, medical, dental, vision, 401k, disability & life insurance, paid maternity and bonding time benefits, employee discounts/promotions
- Generous performance-driven Incentive Compensation package
- Competitive environment with company wide recognition, contests, and coveted awards
- Exceptional company culture
- Recognized as a Top Workplace USA 2021
- Awarded a “Great Place to Work” award in 2022 and 2023
- Fortune Best Workplaces in Biopharma 2022
What will you be doing?
- Serve as a patient advocate on behalf of the patient to coordinate access to medicines for timely treatment initiation, training, and ongoing shipments across HCP office, payer, and specialty pharmacy.
- Understand a patient’s support needs and interaction preferences to deliver a seamless, tailored patient experience that helps each patient complete their treatment as prescribed by the HCP (Healthcare Professional).
- Provide support to patients and HCPs (Health Care Professional) throughout the prior authorization and appeals processes.
- Educate providers and patients on relevant payer policies to help ensure patients can start and stay on therapy.
- Provide support to each assigned patient about their coverage status while maintaining accurate information in the designated computer system to support data integrity of information relayed to customers and clients.
- Manage a regional caseload promptly as defined by Service Level Agreements.
- Triage accounts and patient cases to aligned Field Access Lead based on business rules established by client.
- Identify trends regarding reimbursement delays, patient concerns, and reports to leadership.
- Communicate with assigned patients, e.g., patient insurance benefit information, available out-of-pocket support, etc.
- Communicate with Field Access Lead regarding patient updates, missing information, and delivery of benefits.
- Collaborate with targeted providers and pharmacies by following up to ensure prescriptions are being processed.
- Help ensure patients have access to all information, by compliantly navigating payer reimbursement, and mitigating any patient out-of-pocket barriers, as applicable.
- Educate on and enroll patients in Patient Support Programs.
- Provide coverage by answering inbound calls from providers, clients, patients, care givers, and pharmacies when applicable.
- Follow all requirements associated with compliance with program regulations, including HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability) and patient privacy.
What do you need for this position?
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum 1-2 years of industry experience with pharmaceutical or healthcare case management and knowledge of medical or pharmaceutical terminology.
- Experience with health insurance and Rx reimbursement.
- Understand HIPAA and privacy laws and requirements and maintain patient confidentiality.
- Experience with Adverse Event and Product Quality Complaint reporting.
- Maintain compliance with program business rules, standard operating procedures, and guidelines.
- Outstanding case management is required.
- Passionate about learning and able to share/communicate that passion to others.
- Exhibit collaboration and follow up is necessary.
- You must demonstrate the ability to work in a dynamic and culturally diverse workplace.
About Inizio Engage
Inizio Engage is a strategic, commercial, and creative engagement partner that specializes in healthcare. Our passionate, global workforce augments local expertise and diverse mix of skills with data, science, and technology to deliver bespoke engagement solutions that help clients reimagine how they engage with their patients, payers, people, and providers to improve treatment outcomes. Our mission is to partner with our clients, improving lives by helping healthcare professionals and patients get the medicines, knowledge, and support they need.
We believe in our values: We empower everyone/We rise to the challenge/We work as one/We ask what if/We do the right thing, and we will ask you how your personal values align to them.
To learn more about Inizio Engage, visit us at: https://inizio.health/
Inizio Engage is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at Inizio are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Inizio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Inizio Engage is an equal opportunity employer M/F/V/D. We appreciate your interest in our company, however, only qualified candidates will be considered.
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