Clinical Pharmacist

Title: Clinical Pharmacist

Duration: 10 months

Location: North Carolina within 60 miles of Durham (May require working onsite up to 2 days per week.) Durham North Carolina 27707

Shift Timing: M-F 8am - 5pm

Pay Rate: $65.15/hr.

Job Description:

• Engage Medicare members, pharmacies, and providers to close adherence and SUPD (Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes) gaps. Complete Comprehensive Medication Reviews (CMRs) with Medicare members.
• Make outreach to Medicare members to assist in removing barriers to medication adherence.
• Partner with pharmacies and providers to close adherence gaps when the Medicare member is unengaged or when the Medicare member requires assistance.
• Contact providers to close SUPD (Statin Use in Persons with Diabetes) gaps.
• Complete Comprehensive Medication Reviews (CMRs) with eligible Medicare members to give the member a better understanding of their medications and health.
• Send interventions to providers through fax or the CMR platform to alert the provider of potential drug interactions and adverse reactions, dose changes, adherence issues, etc.
• Provide counseling to Medicare members regarding medications.
• Provide Medicare members with information regarding their pharmacy benefits (ie. formulary, preferred pharmacy, supplemental benefits, etc.)
• Provide clinical guidance and support to the Pharmacy Quality Specialists.
• Review prior authorization requests and make determinations for drug products according to member benefits and coverage criteria.
• Report to utilization review statistics to corporate compliance committees.
• Review data and summarize daily utilization review numbers.
• Responsible for tracking compliance of review cases.
• Provide clinical guidance and support to the assigned pharmacy technicians.
• Knowledge of drug coding (NDC, GCN, GPI and USC) and NCPDP claims adjudication systems.
• Review guideline criteria for prior authorization and non-formulary drugs in support of Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee function and pharmacy benefit design.
• Ensure and evaluate quality controls and implement opportunities for performance improvement in pharmacy practices.
• Research drug information to maintain drug knowledge and disease state understanding for application to prior authorization reviews.

Hiring Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
• 3+ years of experience in related field.
• Current states pharmacy license.

Top 3-4 Required Skills:

• Able to work on computers and has work from home experience.
• Pharmacist experience.

Nice to have Skills:

• Medicare and medicaid experience.
• Health Plan
• Managed care experience

Years of Experience:

• 3-5

Education/Certifications Required:

• Pharmacist license for the state.

Industry Specific Experience – required, ideal, necessary?

• Retail, HMO, DSP

Breakdown of Duties/Typical Day:

• Participating in comprehensive medication review.
• Cold calling members and reaching out on non adherence.

Do you have screening questions?

• Do you have any familiarity with Medicare STARs and metrics? If so, please explain.