This position primarily supports the Tower Health Family and Internal Medicine clinics, with a focus on diabetes management. The role involves direct patient care as well as close collaboration with other healthcare providers, and this work is carried out under a Collaborative Practice Agreement (CPA).

Candidates must have completed a residency or have at least 1 year of diabetes management experience. This position is 100% onsite in Reading, Pennsylvania.

Hours:

Monday through Friday day shift, and typically no weekends or holidays required

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate value of ambulatory pharmacy partnership to physician practices.

• Maintain presence in clinic, field medication questions from providers, such as formulary product selection, product dosing, ADR's, and other considerations.

• Ensure prescriptions flow through ambulatory pharmacy and are identified by pharmacy staff.

• Maintain patient schedule for clinical pharmacist services including, but not limited to, medication counseling, pillbox refills, immunization, medication administration.

• Maintain patient list, schedule appropriate follow-ups to assess medication safety and efficacy, communicate treatment plan recommendations with provider.

• Coordinate patient refills. Ensure auditable records showing proof-of-delivery are maintained.

• Prepare and submit prior authorizations, manage denials/appeals.

• Triage prescriptions which are limited distribution drugs or out-of-network.

• Act as financial advocate for patient when needed, leverage charitable foundations, state programs, and/or manufacturer programs to ensure medication affordability.

• Demonstrate ability to navigate various platforms and document appropriately in EMR and specialty therapy management platform.

• Contribute to expansion of ambulatory pharmacy services through active participation in navigator committee and projects.

• Cross-train to ambulatory pharmacy, assist with staffing, as needed.

Education:

PharmD degree strongly preferred. Residency training or previous Diabetes Management experience required. Current unrestricted pharmacist license in the appropriate state of practice.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Candidates should have prior experience on pharmacy dispensing systems and be familiar with insurance adjudication processes.

• The role involves working with a broad array of complex disease states and medical conditions; candidates should be comfortable working with clinical data, lab values, and reading/writing notes in patient medical records.

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