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Clinical Pharmacist - Medical Policy

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Corporate - Baton Rouge, LA
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12.3% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. bcbsla postings stay open a median of 7 days.

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  3. 12.3%7 days
  4. 19.3%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 58.1%60 days
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bcbsla median: 7 days open

The posting

We take great strides to ensure our employees have the resources to live well, be healthy, continue learning, develop skills, grow professionally and serve our local communities. We invite you to apply for a career with us.

Residency in or relocation to Louisiana is preferred for all positions.

Applicants must be authorized to work for Louisiana Blue in the United States without employer-sponsored immigration support. Louisiana Blue will not provide current or future employment-based immigration sponsorship or other immigration support for this opportunity, including H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-1B1, E-3, TN, or J-1 sponsorship or F-1 OPT/STEM OPT/CPT support. Applicants who would require such sponsorship or employer support during their employment should not pursue this opportunity.

POSITION PURPOSE

This position is responsible for leading the medical policy efforts of prescription drugs, which includes strategy development, implementation, build, maintenance, quality review, and measurement of the prior authorization program. This position also serves as a liaison to the clinical appeals area and serves as lead pharmacist on the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

NATURE AND SCOPE

  • This role does not manage people
  • This role reports to this job: Manager, Pharmacy Medical Policy & Specialty Drug Management.
  • Necessary Contacts: To do this job effectively, the incumbent has to be in contact with: All levels of BCBSLA pharmacy department, and clinical areas of Medical Management, PBM clinical personnel, and e-hosting formulary vendor personnel. Incumbents dedicated to Medical Policy also have contact with the Lead Medical Director for Medical Policy as well as BCBSLA’s Medical Policy, Clinical Appeals, Professional and Facility Reimbursement, and Legal departments.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

  • Doctorate of Pharmacy required or
  • Bachelor's Degree in Pharmacy required

Work Experience

  • 1 year of experience working in clinical pharmacy roles and supporting P&T Committee and/or drug information activities required
  • 1 year of experience in managed care preferred
  • Experience with software programs such as Word and Excel is a must and knowledge of PowerPoint preferred

Skills and Abilities

  • Must have proficiency in pharmacology, therapeutics and knowledge of disease management programs for the purpose of supporting the clinical aspects of this job.
  • Must possess strong interpersonal, organizational, oral/written communication skills in addition to strong clinical skills.

Licenses and Certifications

  • Current pharmacy license in good standing required
  • Participation in ASHP or AMCP-accredited residency program preferred

ACCOUNTABILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

  • Serve as companywide subject matter expert regarding specialty drug management strategies of medications covered under both the pharmacy and medical benefits, including specialty pharmacy pipeline monitoring to identify new products that are expected to have major clinical and financial impacts on drug trend, for the purpose of ensuring BCBSLA’s coverage of specialty drugs are current, clinically sound, and cost-effective.
  • Serves as lead author of medical policy clinical criteria which includes the development, updating, and maintenance of decision tree logic used to support phone, fax, and web-based authorizations; includes consistency of authorization requirements within therapy classes; and includes monitoring the results of the authorization process (i.e., authorization, denial, and appeal rates) for the purpose of ensuring BCBSLA’s drug utilization management programs are current, clinically sound, efficient, and cost-effective.
  • Serve as lead BCBSLA pharmacist to the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee ; pharmacist liaison to the Clinical Appeal areas; leads review and discussion of drugs that are new to market, have new indications, or updated safety profiles and primarily accountable for change management functions as a result of the Annual Formulary Update process.
  • Collaborates with pharmacy reporting and analytics for the purpose of measuring utilization management program effectiveness, identifying medical and pharmacy drug dosing and utilization management opportunities, managing medical drug rebate programs, and providing rebate opportunity assessments.
  • Responsible for maintenance and updating of self-administered drug list programming for purpose of ensuring that drugs intended to be self-administered by patients are not routinely reimbursed under the medical benefit.

Additional Accountabilities and Essential Functions The Physical Demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the Accountabilities and Essential Functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions

  • Perform other job-related duties as assigned, within your scope of responsibilities.
  • Job duties are performed in a normal and clean office environment with normal noise levels.
  • Work is predominately done while standing or sitting.
  • The ability to comprehend, document, calculate, visualize, and analyze are required.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

All internal employees please apply through Workday Careers.

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Additional Information

Please be sure to monitor your email frequently for communications you may receive during the recruiting process. Due to the high volume of applications we receive, only those most qualified will be contacted. To monitor the status of your application, please visit the "My Applications" section in the Candidate Home section of your Workday account.

If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, please contact [email protected] for assistance.

In support of our mission to improve the health and lives of Louisianians, we encourage the good health of its employees and visitors. We want to ensure that our employees have a work environment that will optimize personal health and well-being. Due to the acknowledged hazards from exposure to environmental tobacco smoke, and in order to promote good health, our company properties are smoke and tobacco free.

We perform background and pre-employment drug screening after an offer has been extended and prior to hire for all positions. As part of this process records may be verified and information checked with agencies including but not limited to the Social Security Administration, criminal courts, federal, state, and county repositories of criminal records, Department of Motor Vehicles and credit bureaus. Pursuant with sec 1033 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, individuals who have been convicted of a felony crime involving dishonesty or breach of trust are prohibited from working in the insurance industry unless they obtain written consent from their state insurance commissioner.

Additionally, we are a Drug Free Workplace. A pre-employment drug screen will be required and any offer is contingent upon satisfactory drug testing results.

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