Pharmacy Care Coordinator responsibilities include
Works in collaboration with insurance companies, nursing, social workers, and pharmacy to obtain appropriate authorization for medications including registration with drug specific manufacturer programs when applicable.
Performs tasks related to prescription billing including completing benefits investigations, assisting with the prior authorization process, and locating copay assistance options for patients to ensure affordability of specialty medications.
Escalates clinical support needs and questions to the clinic specialty pharmacist.
Assists with clinic intervention outcomes tracking to monitor value of services.
Coordinates patient outreach during clinic visits or via telephonic follow up to ensure continuity of care and optimize patient outcomes.
Responsibilities may include working to establish and maintain short and long-term quality improvement goals.
The scope and complexity of the position requires a diverse and highly developed skill set including but not limited to: time-management, communication, creativity, vision, teamwork, management, leadership, clinical knowledge base/skills, mentorship, change management, scholarship and teaching. Candidates must be able to work effectively with a multidisciplinary team, handling multiple responsibilities in a fast-paced environment. Physically positioned in a specialty medical clinic setting and work in direct contact with the Clinic Specialty Pharmacist.
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.
