The Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Coordinator provides a supportive role in pharmacy compliance, specifically core elements of ambulatory and specialty pharmacy including but not limited to standards/governance, training, monitoring, and investigations. This position also supports the Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Manager in the evaluation of compliance related to pharmacy practice in the community pharmacy setting, specialty clinics, and medication home delivery. Additionally, this position will work in coordination with the Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Manager, legal, pharmacy operations, and clinical teams to assist in the review of policies and procedures and sustain compliance with regulatory and accreditation standards.
Baptist Health is looking for an Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Coordinator (Certified Pharmacy Technician) to join our team at our Central Pharmacy in LaGrange, KY. This will be a hybrid tole that will work onsite and at home.
Engages in personal development to stay updated with pharmacy trends related to role and practice setting.
Supports the development of compliance strategy and provides ongoing monitoring to minimize risk for the health system.
Assists in data collection and process review to gather information used to collaborate with legal counsel and pharmacy leadership to draft and update system community and specialty pharmacy policies and standard operating procedures.
Partners with Ambulatory Pharmacy Compliance Manager to monitor and analyze reporting to validate compliance to third party payer contracts, regulations, and accreditation standards.
Assists in the monitoring of upcoming changes to regulations and accreditation standards that impact pharmacy practice.
Helps to create communication plans, implement process changes, and develop training to support compliance-related operational changes.
Assists in the development and management of pharmacy quality metrics for performance improvement of teams.
Assists with onsite pharmacy audits, patient management audits, and investigations to ensure compliance with regulations, accreditation standards, and contractual requirements for third party payers.
Assists with controlled substance surveillance and inventory corrections audits.
Works in partnership with Ambulatory and Specialty Pharmacy leadership to prepare for and successfully navigate accreditation surveys.
Minimum Education and Training
High School Diploma or equivalency required.
Registration with Kentucky Board of Pharmacy upon hire.
Nationally certified as a pharmacy technician.
Must obtain 340B University or Apexus certification within 6 months of hire.
Minimum Experience
At least 2 years of related work experience in retail and/or specialty pharmacy.
Experience in pharmacy compliance preferred.
Knowledge of state and federal pharmacy statutes and regulations preferred.
Experience with specialty pharmacy accreditation standards preferred.
Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint and other pharmacy related applications preferred.
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
